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

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Monday 26 April 2004 01:19 pm, William Wylde wrote:
> Michael:
> >I just did this, but I did it the easy way.  I created a new partition
> > with Reiserfs, mounted it, copied everything with rsync -av, then
> > remounted the new one where the old one was.  Worked first time.
>
> How did you make the new partition?  Did you resize your old partition
> on-the-fly without data loss?

I cheated.  I had  lots of free space on the disk.  ;-)

> Making tradtional backups (at least all at once!) with what I've got to
> work with seems too much trouble- as I've got over 30 gigs of data... 
> Though I guess I could make a huge tar file, and move it to another box on
> the lan (guessing that would take all day).

Can you add a hard drive?

Michael