No conversion is possible. You can only reformat to Reiser. The only non-destructive filesystem change possible is from ext2 to ext3, which might also provide many/most of the benefits of Reiser.
If you have space, you could backup your system into tarballs(piecemeal if you have multiple partitions) to another location of your harddrive and with a boot disk, reformat to Reiser, then untar your system back onto the harddrive. You will need to have a minimal boot disk to do this if you can't reinstall. The alternative takes more time but is less prone to error: backup to tarballs as above, then reinstall a MINIMAL system, selecting ReiserFS, going through the brief(er) install, then untarring your backed-up system back over this reinstall. This last one is how I did it, but I have 3 harddrives in my system and lots of space to store my system tarballs (I made tar.bz2 archive files to save space) in partitions that I wasn't going to reformat until later. On Thursday 04 October 2001 04:53 am, DStevenson wrote: > On Wednesday 03 October 2001 16:16, Guy McArthur wrote: > > I use reiser for all my partitions (/, /usr, and /home). And I've > > actually had a lot of crashes and lockups due 1st to a hard drive that > > was failing, then a flakey disk controller, playing with a lot of beta [...] > What is the best way to migrate to RFS? I am not in a position to > re-install the system, is there a conversion utility?
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