ext2->ext3

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Andrew Mathews wrote:
> Tom Wilson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I got me a shiny new PC last week.  I am in process of backing up the
> > data off my old pc to get it ready for the new.
> >
> > I was going to install Linux w/ ext3 filesystem on the new pc, the old
> > one has ext2.  Can I restore to the new if it is ext3?  Or to I have to
> > install it as ext2, restore my backups, then convert to ext3?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
>
> You'll have to convert it to XFS first, at which time you'll decide to
> keep it that way. ;)

Indeed.

> Seriously, you should have no problems copying your files from ext2 to
> ext3 as 3 is simply 2 with a journal. What distro are you planning on using?

Also matters how the data is backed up.  But if you're going to go through
the time in restoring from backup to a new box, you might as well do it on
a reliable filesystem, namely, XFS.

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