Re: 2.6.2-rc1-ben1 and XFS anyone? (+some questions)
Hi Julien,
Maaaaan, I am stressed with this issue... I installed a XFSed woody (the
one from Ethan Benson) and the 2.4.23 shipped works fine, as I said.
Me never uses devfs :) so, that is not the problem. Having said that,
> > how did you turn it into XFS? Did you install from Ethan's ISO or you
> > turned an EXT2/3 into XFS?
>
> I installed the machine 2.5 years ago, with a standard Woody CD, then
> built a 2.4+XFS kernel, copied the system to the new XFS partition,
> then repartitioned the disk to enlarge the system partition and ran
> xfs_growfs (gotta love that feature) :-)
Now this IS interesting :) Perhaps, I should have read a bit more on
XFS to understand the cool features of the system. Sooo, you can grow
the partition wothour loosing data... now, THAT is cool :) Back when I
used windows, and started with a dual boot, I used Partition Magic, etc,
and I forgot about that feature since I turned completely into linux. I
feel like a kid again :)
I think I will reinstall from sarge doing a 1G swap partition, plus an
initial partition of 2G for sarge EXT3 plus an "empty" partition of the
rest of the disk for XFS. Then, I mkxfs the empty partition and I copy the
/ partition into the XFS/. Finally, I build a 2.6 with EXT2+EXT3+XFS
kernel, fix the /etc/fstab so it points to the new XFS/ partition, fix
yaboot.conf so it boots the 2.6 against the XFS/, and when it
(hopefully) boots into 2.6 XFS/, I xfs_growfs the XFS/ against EXT3/,
and I end up with an XFS system just like you :)
Can you please check all the steps that I mention here? Are they correct
enough? :)
And another thing: when partitioning the disk, should I do:
/dev/hda1 Apple partition table
/dev/hda2 Apple bootstrap
/dev/hda3 Linux swap (1G)
/dev/hda4 EMPTY (for XFS, 57G)
/dev/hda5 Linux Native (EXT3, for sarge / )
so when I grow hda4 it swallows hda5 and I end up with a nice numbered
system? :) Does the opposite (grow hda5 to swallow hda4) work (if you
know, of course)? If worse comes to worse, I can always fix the
partition numbers and mess with /etc/fstab, right?
Thanks for all your help and ideas :) Hopefully, after exams (end of
this week!) I will be running a wonderful Titanium with XFS+2.6 :D
Cheers,
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: :' : J. Javier Maestro
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