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Re: converting file system



On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 06:44:39PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Andrew J. Barr wrote:
>> On 8/3/07, Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:35:09PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>>>> So I doubt it.  How you proceed depends on what mount point we're
>>>> talking about.  Hopefully, its not /.  Anything else you can 'fix' by
>>>> doing a backup, going single-user, unmount the partition, remake the
>>>> filesystem, mount it, and restore the backup, then shutdown back to
>>>> multi-user.
>>> Or use convertfs.
>>>
>>> (apt-cache show convertfs)
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386967
>
> so convertfs is gone.
>

from the RM bug report:

- The final step in converting a filesystem, reordering the blocks of
  the target filesystem, is apparently programmed in a very inefficient
  way, and it can take weeks for large filesystems to complete
  convertfs.
----------------------^^^^^^


imagine if you didn't know that going in... 

sheesh. 

A

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