[ale] Non-destructive conversion from ext2 to reiser?

[Geoffrey]

BruceG wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 April 2004 03:55, William Wylde wrote:
> 
>>Anybody know a way to non-destructively convert an ext2fs to reiserfs? 
>>I've already upgraded all of my disks/partitions except those mounted on
>>/home- but I'd really like to have the speed and realiability of reiserfs
>>on those disks as well.
>>
>>Hopefully, this is somewhat on-topic...  ;-)
>>
> 
> 
> Mondo supports conversions from one file type to another. You back up in 
> ext2fs, then restore to a ReiserFS partition. I've only backed up and 
> restored, I have not changed partition formats or partition sizes - so take 
> it for what it's worth.

convertfs does this 'in place.'  I'd certainly recommend that you create 
a backup first.

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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