How do I switch file systems?

LeoSolaris · 2008-11-16 20:38:02

I have /home on a separate partition with jfs as it's file system. It is driving me bonkers by freezing and having to be restarted and checked every hour or so. It just started doing it this much just over the last week since my gal got a new Dell XPS with Vista. It seems to happen much more frequently when I have had the computer on for long periods when she is also on the wireless network. It's a Linksys Wireless N WRT300N, she has an Intel Wireless N card that I believe is the latest model, the 5100, and I have the 4965.

All of my temps are reading normal, including the hard drive. I have never had a fail from the reiserfs / partition, or any ext3's that I had had in the past. I just want to swap it back to the ext3, because I have not seen any performance gains, and it has this lovely freezing issue.

I have it mounted noatime and nodiratime (I think thats the spellings for those two) and I have made sure to keep the commit times fairly low so it doesn't use up the hard drive's Load Cycle Count, because mine is one that has that issue in Linux. (Has it in Win Serv 2k8 as well, but that is another story.)

I know that I can simply reformat the partition my home partition is on, but I am not sure how to go about re-establishing the /home and the users that are stored on the partition. I've taken out the / partition and re-installed leaving the /home, but I have never just done the /home.

Is there an easier way to alter the file system? or am I just going to have to deal with a reformat?

fwojciec · 2008-11-16 21:01:47

This guide describes the procedure I use when I want to switch a partition to a different filesystem: http://inferno.slug.org/cgi-bin/wiki?Dr … nd_Cloning
It needs to be adjusted intelligently for Arch (i.e. sda rather than hda and so on) but the general principle remains the same.

LeoSolaris · 2008-11-17 19:03:41

Thank ya!

When I have more than ten minutes to myself and my lappy, I will definitely test out that How-to

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#1 2008-11-16 20:38:02

How do I switch file systems?

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Re: How do I switch file systems?

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Re: How do I switch file systems?

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