Re: XFS over EXT3
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:11:55AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> nemesisdivina@gennux.ca wrote:
> >Greetings to all:
> >
> >I'm planning to install debian and planning to use XFS instead of Ext3,
> >does anybody know how to do ti, or know of any advantage of one file
> >system over the other, any recomendation will be appretiated.
> >
> >That's all for the moment, good night to everyone,
> >
> >Didier.
> >
>
> Here are the steps:
>
> 1. Download and burn Knoppix CD
> 2. Boot Knoppix
> 3. Follow instructions for chroot install
> (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade)
> 4. Substitute XFS for ext3 when formating partitions
> 5. Instead of getting stock kernel image, get kernel sources and
> kernel-patch-xfs (for 2.4 kernel) or just kernel source (for 2.6
> kernel, which has XFS support as part of the main source tree)
> 6. Enjoy your new system.
Or, what I did is get the iso from
http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/
burn to CD and then install Debian.
--
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org
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