Re: Converting ext3->XFS

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:04:13 +0100, 
Tom Badran <tb100@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote in message 
<[🔎] 200308221004.13962.tb100@doc.ic.ac.uk>:

> I would like to convert my disks to use the XFS filesystem (im writing
> software at work that uses features only xfs provides). They are
> currently ext3 (two large partitions with decent amount of free
> space). How can i back up a partitions data so that i dont lose file
> permissions etc, so that i can reformat them as xfs, and then restore
> the data on to them?

.._can_ you "just" convert an ext3fs to a a XFS???

..the good old way is tarball your data, 'mkfs.xfs $dev' or 
somesuch, and thenafter drop in your tarballed data.

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