Re: reiserfs to ext3
Kushal Kumaran wrote in Article
<[🔎] 1e364c4e0704042002o18c8094dv957153d468fd270f@mail.gmail.com> posted to
gmane.linux.debian.user:
> On 4/5/07, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) <smibrahim@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/4/07, Johannes Wiedersich
>> <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
>> > If you have enough disk space to accomodate your data *without*
>> > compression you could do the following:
>> >
>> > - boot a 'rescue system' (I recommend knoppix) from CD or usb
>> > - mount both your partition and the one with the free space
>> > - rsync -avx your data to the free space
>> > - reformat your partition to ext3 (all data will be lost, so make sure
>> > you have good backups!)
>> > - rsync all your data back to the new ext3-partition
>> > - adjust your /etc/fstab (replace reiserfs by ext3)
>> > - cross your fingers and reboot
>>
>> OK, but if copy the file to fat32 partion, any problem ?
>>
>
> You'll lose the permission bits and owner/group, etc. (Maybe even
> filename case, but I'm not sure). Use tar if all you have is fat32.
If it's VFAT, it'll retain case, though you can't have two files with the
same name seperated only by different cases in VFAT.
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