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? 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. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 12/23/02 12:13 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke." - Rudyard Kipling _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
