Sorry if this has already been mentioned. I'm just picking some parts of the
thread since I'm bogged down with work...
While moving partition contents, make sure you don't use a cp or mv. They
will normally not preserve permissions. Here's a trick I saw somewhere that I
have come to use very often...
# (cd /source_dir; tar -cf - *)|(cd /target; tar -xf - )
It effectively tars the source directory contents to stdout and then untars
it in the target directory. Beware tho' that if you have any hidden (read
.dot files) you'll miss it because of the '*'
-Faisal.
On Friday 29 June 2001 00:14, Ritesh S wrote:
> Here is what I did ...
> used partition magic created a new partition
> mounted it in linux... converted it to reiserfs...
> copied the whole "/" (without mounting my fat 32 ie
> win partitions .... take care of this .. to do this is
> stupid) to the new partition
> My /boot is a separate partition.... thus no prob else
> you will have to update your lilo...
> modified lilo.conf to add new kernel with root = new
> reiserfs partition.... modified the fstab in the new
> partition top have that as the root and the old one to
> be mounted as a separate one....
>
> I think freeos.com has an article on the same...
> racing to reiserfs or soo.. if you cant find it I can
> pass it on as a text file
>
> Note: Do not modify anything in the present etx2...
> dont touch the fstab of ext2 and have a separate entry
> in lilo.conf for the new partition ... this way you
> always have your present system to fall back on
>
> Ritesh
>
> --- Vinu Chandran R C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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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