opensuse v12.3
v3.7.10-1.16-desktop x86_64
amd athlon ii x4
8 GB RAM
I installed opensuse using btrfs. (I was unaware that it is considered beta.) It has worked fine for months. Now it has taken to thrashing wildly to do anything whatsoever and takes several seconds to minutes to accomplish actions as simple as changing window focus. A disk activity monitor shows an average of 3MB/sec transfer during to whole (in-)activity period.
There are 4 partitions on the drive: /, /boot, /home, /boot. Only the root (/) partition seems to suffer from this malady.
The swap disk is unused.
Rebooting takes up to a half hour and makes no difference.
Is there a (relatively) simple fix for this?
If not, where is a How-To or a FAQ that describes in extreme detail how to copy a system disk to another?
On the new drive, I assume I would have to create the partitions, format them (not with btrfs!), mount them, copy the volume contents, change fstab and grub, reboot. Unless there are specific tools that handle a lot the detail?
v3.7.10-1.16-desktop x86_64
amd athlon ii x4
8 GB RAM
I installed opensuse using btrfs. (I was unaware that it is considered beta.) It has worked fine for months. Now it has taken to thrashing wildly to do anything whatsoever and takes several seconds to minutes to accomplish actions as simple as changing window focus. A disk activity monitor shows an average of 3MB/sec transfer during to whole (in-)activity period.
There are 4 partitions on the drive: /, /boot, /home, /boot. Only the root (/) partition seems to suffer from this malady.
The swap disk is unused.
Rebooting takes up to a half hour and makes no difference.
Is there a (relatively) simple fix for this?
If not, where is a How-To or a FAQ that describes in extreme detail how to copy a system disk to another?
On the new drive, I assume I would have to create the partitions, format them (not with btrfs!), mount them, copy the volume contents, change fstab and grub, reboot. Unless there are specific tools that handle a lot the detail?