Craig Dickson <crdic@yahoo.com> writes: > > Grab the latest Debian reiserfs boot disks and use them to do the > > install. Then you'll have reiserfs as your boot partition the _easy_ > > way. > > Possibly dumb question, but I have an existing ext2fs system. Is there > an easy (or even a not so easy) way of changing it to ReiserFS without > reinstalling everything? Is there a friendly ext2-to-Reiser conversion > tool that I can run in single-user mode? Or do I really have to rebuild > the system from scratch if I want ReiserFS on all partitions? No dumb questions, only dumb answers! Here's how I did it: I took a look at the HD-upgrade HowTo e.g. at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html and followed that procedure *twice* to do the upgrade. 1. Upgrade: I took a clean HD of the same size of my current one and partitioned it in exactly the same way as my old e2f was, using e2f filesystem on the new drive. I copied every to the new one as if I wanted to install the new one instead of the old one. Follow the steps in the HowTo. 2. Upgrade: now I re-initialized my old drive with reiserfs and followed again the HowTo procedure to install that (reiserfs)-drive to my computer. After installing it, the "temporary" drive was not needed anymore. If you have a big hd and use only very few of it, you might even try to install a copy of the system a second time to temporary boot the box and install reiserfs on the "original" root and copy everything back from the temp-location to the new reiserfs-root. Anything goes, I also recommend to take a look at the lilo-documentation to get the right system booted. -- Tschoe, Get my gpg-public-key here Jens http://gecius.de/gpg-key.txt
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