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 3 partitions on the drive: /, /home, /boot. Only the root (/) partition (/dev/sdb7) suffers from this malady; it is 41 GB and 60% used.
Smartctl has found no problem with the disk.
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
Code:
$ btrfs filesystem show
failed to read /dev/sr0
Label: none uuid: 098fea71-c70f-4fa1-854c-71d1fee8a999
Total devices 1 FS bytes used 1.81GB
devid 1 size 191.58GB used 12.04GB path /dev/sdb8
Label: none uuid: 0617578a-edca-4e3b-9100-729ae05c9057
Total devices 1 FS bytes used 22.26GB
devid 1 size 40.00GB used 24.54GB path /dev/sdb7
Btrfs v0.19+
$ btrfs filesystem df /
Data: total=21.01GB, used=20.60GB
System, DUP: total=8.00MB, used=4.00KB
System: total=4.00MB, used=0.00
Metadata, DUP: total=1.75GB, used=1.66GB
Metadata: total=8.00MB, used=0.00There are 3 partitions on the drive: /, /home, /boot. Only the root (/) partition (/dev/sdb7) suffers from this malady; it is 41 GB and 60% used.
Smartctl has found no problem with the disk.
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?