RE: ext3 - followup

[Kalum / Grendel <kalum delrom ro>]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002,  Mark Knecht commented thusly,

> Grendel,
>    Just a couple of last questions. I expect that I'd just use XFS or
> reiserfs on a secondary drive that holds my recorded audio from Ardour to
> start, but I'd leave ext2 on the main system drive for simplicities sake.
> There's no problem running all these files systems at the same time is
> there? I'm sure the answer is no, but just checking. (Unfortunately, I'd not
> be able to have the better reliability for a while.
>
>    Later, if I want to convert the system drive to reiserfs or XFS, what's
> the process? How do I get the same system image and my files loaded onto the
> new file system? Completely rebuild/restore? Or is there something easier.

The method described in the reiserfs link for converting / to reiserfs
should work, its basically copy to another patition, and make the FS you
want and copyback the data, you will have to change the fstab and
lilo.conf entries.

But before converting your root fs, I think you can play about with the
new file systems on other paritions and see how you find them.

Best Wishes,
Grendel


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