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

[William Wylde]

>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

Are you talking about making an uncompressed tar and just allowing it to sit 
on the drive during the changover?

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