Re: reiserfs to ext3
S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote in Article
<[🔎] 4997275b0704041957v56151142q637856900d1cb4de@mail.gmail.com> posted to
gmane.linux.debian.user:
> 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 ?
Yes. Fat32 lacks filesystem permissions. You will lose metadata.
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