* David Babb (dcbabb at gmail.com) wrote: > Good morning folks, > > Currently a Debian user, was a Gentoo user for a few years. > > I have three HDD's (non-root) that are formatted XFS. Once I install > OS in my old root partition, I need to be able to read XFS and move > stuff around to convert to ZFS. > > I don't see any hits in this forum (did a search), nor much on google > about the ability to read XFS drives (to move data elsewhere), then > reformat the drive to ZFS, and put the archived data back on the newly > reformatted drive. > > May I request some assistance or advise please on "How To"?
Backup and Restore unfortunately is your only option. There isn't any native support in OpenSolaris for reading XFS formatted media. If it isn't UFS, ZFS or FAT16/32 then you're out of luck. I've seen 'rumors' that there is a fuse module for reading NTFS or EXT2/3 on OpenSolaris but I've never used them and they aren't included by default (and don't solve your XFS issue anyway). > > One more item that is Driver related: > > I have an Asus Xonar D1. It's not listed in the HCL. What hoops do I > need to go through to get this card to operate in OS? I've never heard of this card, but if you boot the OpenSolaris liveCD there's a device driver detection utility you can run to see if there is a driver available. Cheers, -- Glenn
