How do I change from ext3 to ext2?

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Gerry Doris wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Net Llama! wrote:
>
> > On 02/10/03 19:04, Gerry Doris wrote:
> > > This is on a dual boot system and I was going to use Partition Magic's
> > > DriveCopy to copy the entire drive all at once to a new drive.  Problem is
> > > that my copy of DriveCopy doesn't understand ext3.
> >
> > that's what dd is for.  its free, and works as advertised.
>
> I'm going from a 40GB drive to an 80GB drive.  I thought that dd would end
> up making my 80GB drive look like a 40GB.  If I was moving to the same
> size drive dd would work....right?

Yes, it will only work well for same size drives.  So then what's wrong
with using good old tar?

> > > Perhaps I can just change the partitions to ext2, let DriveCopy copy the
> > > entire disk to the new one, and then change them back to ext3 so
> > > everything will work again?
> >
> > if you trust this DriveCopy thing.  quite frankly i'd be very concerned
> > about using a commerical product that can't even understand your filesystem.
>
> This is a test system and there isn't anything critical on it.  This is
> more in the line of "inquiring minds want to know".

I'd still be hesitant to use it.  You could still technically go with dd,
but you'd have to use some fancy partition extending tricks.  I guess it
all comes down to whether you want to use an open source solution or a
black box.

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