On Tuesday 01 May 2001 19:54, Ron Bettle wrote: > You will need the reiserFS utils, get these rom reisers site.
is there any reason why i should not use the packaged reiserFS utils in Sid? also, is it 'safe' to use hdparm when having reiserfs partitions? I'll be doing the following: 1) backup each dir and its subdirs with tar (tar cf /usr, tar cf /lib etc.. etc..) onto an unused vfat partition 2) rebooting the comp with a bootfloppy containing a kernel with reiserfs support compiled in. 3) rm -rf /usr, /lib.. etc after mounting the vfat partition which also contains a copy of /sbin and /bin untarred. 4) with fdisk remove /dev/hda5 (current / partition) and recreate it. mkreiserfs /dev/hda5 5) mount and untar the made tarballs onto the new reiserfs partition 6) cleanup fstab current partitioning has /home and /var on different partitions, with the move to reiserfs i'll first put everything on one partition to keep things simple and shortly after mkreiserfs the /var and /home partitions, and move /var and /home to their previous partitions not exactly efficient, but simple enough to not make any large mistakes.. (i hope, but if something goes seriously wrong i still have everything in tarballs on the vfat partition) any flaws in this game plan?