to ext4 or not...

[Matthew Gillen]

On 06/21/2009 09:05 PM, David Kramer wrote:
> I'm really stuck now, though, because there's no way to get my root
> partition back to ext3.  Since it's /, it's got /dev and /proc and other
> things you can't just tar up.  So I've symlinked some critical things
> like /var/mail to other filesystems.

I haven't used it in several years, but
http://www.mondorescue.org/
is perfect for putting your / on a new filesystem/RAID/LVM configuration.

It'll build you a bootable cd/dvd that will restore your system in a 
configurable way, using the kernel/tools from your system that made the cds.
(and it takes all the /dev and /proc stuff into account).

Matt