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. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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
