Hi Vinu,
Yes, mkreiserfs will wipe out your entire partition. The
solution essentially is to
1. Copy your root to another partition/hard disk.
2. Change the settings in lilo and etc/fstab to point to the
new root.
3. Boot off the new root.
4. Format old root w/ reiserfs.
5. Copy data back.
Or you can format the new partition w/ reiserfs -- copy root
there and thereafter boot off the new partition.
Basically, no easy way to do it ... Have fun! :>
- Mayank
> Hi,
>
> But if I'm having data in a partition and if I want to
> protect the data, will
> this work ? mkreiserfs will format the whole partition, isn't
> it ???
> Please advise !!!
>
> regards
>
> Vinoos.
>
> Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
>
> > I would say it's just 'mkreiserfs /dev/hda4<hypothetical>'
> followed by a mount.
> >
> > Nothing else is required.
> >
> > Shridhar
> >
> > Penguin wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have got an empty partition at home for Oracle. Say if I
> want
> > > to make that partition reiserfs, what steps I need to
> follow. Any link for
> >
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