Converting existing ext3 partition w/ data to reiserfs

Mon May 17 11:37:37 PDT 2004

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Susan Macchia wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If I have an existing partition that is ext3, can I convert it to
> reiserfs w/o losing the data?  Or do I have to move the data, convert
> the partition, then move the data back?

AFAIK, you can't non-destructively convert any filesystem to another,
other than ext2 <-> ext3.

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