On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 09:56:56AM -0400, Simon wrote: > Yeah, I know - I want to convert this FS over to ext3, but am not sure > of the easiest/best/most reliable way of doing so... any pointers to > HowTo's? I *think* switching filesystems as easy as tarring up the > partition, reformatting, then restoring?
Yes, as long as your filesystem doesn't have anything funky (sparse files, ACLs, SELinux tagging etc). > Ok, the *only* directory causing ls to hang is the /tmp directory, so... > > Which would be (less likely to cause *additional* problems) - rename the > entire .Trash directory? Or just the /tmp directory? If you can still access files in cur and new, then I don't expect it makes any difference. > > If you then backup using tar --exclude SKIPME, then hopefully it > > won't traverse into the broken directory. > > Right, already considered something like that, but thanks for keeping me > sane... Probably a good idea to mount the partition read-only and back it up, *before* running reisferfsck over it. If reiserfsck succeeds, then you could try a second backup to see if you get more data off (but don't overwrite the first backup, as conceivably you might have *less* data after reiserfsck completes) Cheers, Brian. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
