ext2->ext3

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 23 December 2002 11:57 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > > On Monday 23 December 2002 12:04 pm, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > > > How many stock bootloaders like XFS these days?  That's been one
> > > > of the bigger problems with switching filesystems in the past.
> > > > I'd have to have an older boot partition and store data on the new
> > > > FS...  Which still causes problems since the system and config is
> > > > not on the super-duper filesystem. And I'm sorry, but I am still
> > > > of the opinion that for my purposes I am better off using as much
> > > > distro-stock as possible.
> > >
> > > And add to this the question of how many partition diddlers will
> > > handle XFS partitions.  I don't think either Acronis or Partition
> > > Magic will. I guess one could rely on Knoppix to do everything but
> > > I'm not sure I could agree with that.
> >
> > IMHO, "partition diddlers" aren't such a keen idea in the first place,
> > regardless of the filesystem.  Why would you need Knoppix anyway?
>
> So you never changed the size, shape, location of your partitions?

No.

> And I referred to Knoppix because that's what David Bandel used to rescue
> one of his XFS systems, or so I thought he said.

I don't recall, however it shouldn't be neccesary.  Dave's box seemed to
have experienced some hardware level trauma, which is prolly why he needed
extra manual effort to recover.  For the boxes that I admin, XFS recovery
is about a 2 second process, and is completely automated, regardless of
partition size.

I have had to use Knoppix to fix a mess that i made with glibc, but that's
a competely different story.

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