Re: ext3 Re: Sarge with ext3, reiserfs (3/4?) or xfs? - converting

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Kenneth Jacker wrote:

> Question:  is there a 'reiser2ext3' utility to change my current
> 'reiser' partitions to 'ext3'.  I'd sure prefer that than having to
> re-create the 'ext3's from scratch ...

basic steps for "reiserfs2ext3"

tar zcvf  /mnt/some-temp-space/reiserfs-data.tgz  /reiserfs-data
 
mke2fs -j /reiserfs-data-partition

edit /etc/fstab from reisferfs to ext3

mount newly formatted ext3 partition

cd /new-ext3 ; tar zxvfp  /mnt/some-temp-space/reiserfs-data.tgz


do lots of sanity checking before hand, during and after conversion

c ya
alvin