On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Bob Raymond wrote: > On Wednesday 11 December 2002 09:53 pm, Bonez wrote: > > This morning when I came in to work, I flipped on my monitor and found > > scary file corruption messages, suggesting I enter the root password or hit > > Ctrl-D to enter maintenance mode. > > > > I am trying to compile a new kernel to upgrade from 2.4.2 to 2.4.20. In > > running 'make menuconfig' I included the option of compiling reiserfs and > > other journaling file systems into the new kernel. At the point when I can > > successfully get the kernel to compile and then to run, how do I as a > > relative newbie, choose between the various journaling file systems? I am > > leaning toward running XFS as it sounds most stable and reliable, but I am > > unsure. > > > > Any enlightenment is appreciated. > > > > Scott > > OK, to do XFS you need an XFS patched kernel (see > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs) > > Then you have to make a partition for the filesystem, and I think you'd need > xfsprogs for xfs, reiserfsprogs for ReiserFS (namesys.com I think). Then you > can copy files over, and you'll have a new filesystem.
See my SxS on migrating a live system to XFS. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
