Ext3 and Reiserfs
Hey, is there someway to "convert" my ext3 filesystem to reiserfs without deleting the files in the ext3 filesystem ?
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Not that I know of.
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well there is... kinda...
heres the translation of the message Yury Umanets aka Banshee(one of namesys programers) posted at http://www.linux.org.ru/view-message...anonymous=hide Quote:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.p...421cf2b2a1c8ee of course you do understand how dangerous this is and backups is a MUST and since you have the backup anyway it would be much easier just mkreiserfs and copy back the data. |
I would agree with kostian in suggesting simply copying the data to a CD or whatever, converting the file system, and then copying the data back. -- J.W.
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It's probably easier to do if you have a spare hard drive. I feel much safer doing it this way than using an all-or-nothing approach. I'm not saying that convertfs doesn't work or even that it's buggy -- just that I feel more comfortable copying the data to a new drive, booting from that, letting it run a few days to see how things are working out, then retiring the old drive.
I used the following guide (http://www.losurs.org/docs/LDP/HOWTO...ade/index.html) to do my filesystem change, with slight variations (I partitioned the new drive a bit differently than the old one). I can provide the details, if desired. I've now been running ReiserFS for several days without problems. It does seem a bit quicker than ext3. Garry |
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