Converting existing ext3 partition w/ data to reiserfs

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:37:38 PDT 2004


On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 04:59:03AM -0700, 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?

Not that I'm aware of. I just moved from ext3 to XFS on a couple
of partitions and did the copy out, covert, copy back routine. cpio
made the copying hither and thither a lot nicer...

Kurt



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