[KLUG Members] XFS Question

[Alan DeJong]

Bruce Smith wrote:

> > I am on my way to my first KLUG meeting tomorrow, and was wondering if i could
> > upgrade my (almost)Stock Red Hat 7.1 with BSware 7.1 Pro?  And if XFS could be
> > installed over my current file system?  I have my other questions, but I'll save
> > those!
>
> I don't think you can convert an ext2 filesystem to XFS.
>
> That leaves two options.
>
> o  Reinstall from scratch with BSware PRO.
>

Sounds easy enough.. Like i said, its pretty much stock Red Hat.  Nothing too
Special.  Do we have internet access in the room we will be in?  One thing i do have
is Ximian Gnome, and that sucks when u have to download it on a dial up connection :)

>
> o  If you have a lot of free disk space and empty partitions, you
>    could pay "musical filesystems" by formatting new XFS partitions and
>    coping everything to those, and reformating the old ones to XFS,
>    copy everything back (or not) ...

Ummm... refer to previous statement. :)
-Alan