Re: ext2 -> reiserfs

[Sven Hoexter <sven@telelev.net>]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:27:04PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote:
> On Sunday 29 July 2001 09:51, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:58:24PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar 
> (prince_shri@yahoo.com) wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > does anyone know an easy way of converting a ext2 partition to
> > > resierfs and is it worth it ?
> >
> >   - Back up ext2fs partition.
> >   - mkreiserfs on the partition.
> >   - Restore data to partition.
> >
> > It's called the reiserfs shuffle.
> how to convert / or /usr to reiserfs?
1. Build a knew kernel with reiserfs Support build-in
2. Boot with a rescue system and mount a NFS share.
3. mkreiserfs the partion and restore the data
4. edit your /etc/fstab
5. reboot and hope that this was the right order to do it ;-)

Sven
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