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Re: reiserfs to ext3



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.

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--
Kushal



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