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

[Dow Hurst]

Your backup should be filesystem info independent which depends on your 
method.  You would want a verified uncompressed tar archive if possible.  Bob 
Toxen has a section in his books on backups with advice.  Tar is very 
transparent when no compression (hardware or software) is used, so it is easy 
to recover a file.  The filesystem info that differentiates let's say XFS from 
ext3 isn't included in the tar archive.  Only file permissions and ownership 
data is stored with the data.  So you can make the backup, remake the 
filesystem to a new type, and recover the data with no worries.
Dow


Geoffrey wrote:
> 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...  ;-)
> 
> 
> Found it.  convertfs, http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/  (small blurb 
> on page 12 of the April 2004)
> 
> Says you can convert unmounted filesystems from ext2 to ReiserFS or XFS.
> 

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