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Ok, so I have Arch on my laptop right now, and after realizing through some chit chat with my friends that XFS wasn't a good FS choice, I wanna switch over to ext3 with some performance enhancers. Sooo ... I archived my entire / partition last night excluding /proc and /dev using tar. I used the cvzphf flags to keep permissions and some other things too. My plan is to split this archive up with this information ...
http://www.cgi-interactive-uk.com/split … files.html
... burn it to cd, format (maybe even repartition to get a little windows in there, but that's another story), then use knoppix to mount the drive, rebuild the tar, and extract to /.
How does this sound? Anything I missed? Seems like a sound idea but I don't want to make a move this large without checking with you guys first
Thanks all!
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It seems like using -h could be trouble, but I'm no expert. I'd probably just keep the config files I've changed, /home/*, and /usr/local/* myself.
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boot with this http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
and burn your hdd with partimage from sysresccd ( http://www.partimage.org/Download )
I removed my sig, cause i select the flag, the flag often the target of enemy.
SAR brain-tumor
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From man tar:
-h, --dereference
don't dump symlinks; dump the files they point to
I'd have to agree with pauldonnelly - that's not good.
Apart from that, I'm sure the file-splitting will work fine, but it would make me nervous - the few times I've decided to do this, I've always had somewhere I can store and retrieve the entire tarball.
BTW, knoppix also provides partimage, if you decide to use it.
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ah yeah good catch with the h flag! I just copied the jumble of tags from a website about how to do this, turns out not to be so reliable eh?
My installaion has been doing some very bizzare things after some power failures with XFS, so I think I'm just going to save my important data then just reinstall. There have even been a few times where my terminal would display garbled text :shock: Yeah, XFS on laptops is a huge no-no ...
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