"---" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >my /usr is currently in xfs.. now, i want to turn it >back to ext2/ext3... how should i do this? > >is cp -a enough? or is there a debian/xfs way to do >this? tnx
Any method wherein you can shuttle back your data from the XFS partition and back without following the symlinks would do fine (do cp -a, or tar the data, use mc, whatever...) Currently there is no non-destructive method (XFS is laid out way different from the scheme implemented by ext2/ext3 though they both implement inode-structures in the filesystem) of filesystem conversion for most filesystems except (maybe) ext2 and ext3. If you'll be using ext3, just don't get the filesystem get near the almost-full capacity. Since ext3 journal store file metadata and possibly file data too, it grows variably (as opposed to other filesystems which have a set journal size before it starts growing after some certain point). XFS is good if you'll use it on 24/7 machines that don't poweroff. Ext3 performs extremely well on intermittently-powered machines without the filesystem creating a file-hole freak of nature... Paolo Falcone __________________________________ www.edsamail.com
