Re: reiserfs to ext3
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:34:03AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 08:32 +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Note too that FAT32 maximum file size is 4GB.
>
Also might want to note that you WILL lose filename case, FAT32 only
allows for lowercase characters in filenames.
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