[ale] Non-destructive conversion from ext2 to reiser?

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Wed Apr 21 08:00:10 EDT 2004


William Wylde wrote:
> 
> Anybody know a way to non-destructively convert an ext2fs to reiserfs?  
> I've already upgraded all of my disks/partitions except those mounted on 
> /home- but I'd really like to have the speed and realiability of 
> reiserfs on those disks as well.
> 
> Hopefully, this is somewhat on-topic...  ;-)

Found it.  convertfs, http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/  (small blurb 
on page 12 of the April 2004)

Says you can convert unmounted filesystems from ext2 to ReiserFS or XFS.

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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