Changing the filesystem of my root partition..

[Steven M. Klass]

Hi all,

=09Ok, I tried out xfs, and I think it's the culprit of my woes..  Every =
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a while (normally when I am typing a very long email - ironically but not=
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always..) I hear my hardrive sync and then everything freezes.  I have to=
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hard reboot the machine to get it back to life.  Logs are no use because =
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infrequent and I'm using metalog which caches the logs to periodically up=
date
=09Anyway the question is how do I go about doing this.  My general strat=
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would be..
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=09tar -czlpvf mybackup.tar.gz /=09=09=09=09=09(Can someone verify?)
=09mv mybackup.tar.gz /someother partition
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=09Pop in a boot cdrom
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=09mk2fs -j /dev/hda1
=09mkdir /mnt/hda1
=09mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
=09mkdir /mnt/some_other_partition
=09mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/some_other_partition

=09cd /mnt/some_other_partitition
=09tar -xpvf mybackup.tar.gz | (HELP)=09=09=09=09( Pipe the contents to /=
mnt/hda1 )

=09fix my fstab

=09Reboot=09

=09Now what about /proc and /dev?  What do I need to do to these dirs or =
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this strategy cover them to?

Am I missing anything - I'm a bit nervous..

Thanks
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 Steven M. Klass
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