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

Michael D. Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Fri Apr 23 16:06:32 EDT 2004


On Wednesday 21 April 2004 03:55 am, 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.

I just did this, but I did it the easy way.  I created a new partition with 
Reiserfs, mounted it, copied everything with rsync -av, then remounted the 
new one where the old one was.  Worked first time.

I even went and tried out the GUI mount tool supplied by Mandrake.  It worked 
great, so I never did edit my /etc/fstab.

Michael



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