On Thursday 16 October 2003 18:33, Matt Garman wrote: > I'm a bit worried about data corruption with reiserfs, and more > concerned with stability and reliability than performance. So I think > I'd like to convert my reiserfs partitions to ext3. > > What would be the best way to accomplish this (without doing a > re-install)? I was thinking of the following procedure: > > - boot from the LiveCD > - use tar to backup a partition to some temporary location (making > sure tar preserves links, permissions, ownership, etc) > - re-format the partition as ext3 > - use tar to move the data from the temp location to the newly > formatted ext3 partition > > I would repeat this procedure for every one of my reiserfs partitions. > > Finally, I would update /etc/fstab to reflect the changes. > > Assuming I didn't make any mistakes in the above procedure, would this > preserve my system integrity?
I swapped out my root/boot drive in my server without a hitch. Here's what I did: 1. Put the larger drive in the system along side the root/boot drive. 2. Booted off the Gentoo CD. 3. Mounted the current boot/root drive on /mnt/root-old and /mnt/boot-old. 4. Mounted the new boot/root drive on /mnt/root-new and /mnt/boot-new. 5. Ran 'cp -av /mnt/root-old /mnt/root-new' to copy data from the old root to the new. 6. Ran 'cp -av /mnt/boot-old /mnt/boot-new' to copy data from the old boot to the new. 7. Put the new root/boot drive in place of the old. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
