Re: converting ext3 to ffs

2003-09-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:03:27AM +0530, Shantanoo Mahajan typed: > +-- David Benfell [freebsd] [24-09-03 23:00 IST]: > | On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:58:53 -0700, Mike Hogsett wrote: > | > > | > dump(8) and restore(8)* may do the trick. I would recommend dumping from > | > an os where ext3 is native

Re: converting ext3 to ffs

2003-09-25 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+-- David Benfell [freebsd] [24-09-03 23:00 IST]: | On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:58:53 -0700, Mike Hogsett wrote: | > | > dump(8) and restore(8)* may do the trick. I would recommend dumping from | > an os where ext3 is native (e.g. linux) and then restore on a os where ffs | > is native (e.g. FreeBSD).

Re: converting ext3 to ffs

2003-09-24 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "David Benfell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:30 PM Subject: Re: converting ext3 to ffs This should be considered mandatory. Linux support for ffs is broken -- and apparently no one

Re: converting ext3 to ffs

2003-09-24 Thread David Benfell
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:58:53 -0700, Mike Hogsett wrote: > > dump(8) and restore(8)* may do the trick. I would recommend dumping from > an os where ext3 is native (e.g. linux) and then restore on a os where ffs > is native (e.g. FreeBSD). > This should be considered mandatory. Linux support for

Re: converting ext3 to ffs

2003-09-24 Thread Mike Hogsett
> Does anyone know if it's possible to convert an ext3 partition to an > ffs partition? And if so, is it possible to do it without data loss? dump(8) and restore(8)* may do the trick. I would recommend dumping from an os where ext3 is native (e.g. linux) and then restore on a os where ffs is

Re: converting ext3 to ffs

2003-09-23 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, dave wrote: > Does anyone know if it's possible to convert an ext3 partition to an ffs > partition? And if so, is it possible to do it without data loss? > Thanks. > Dave. I don't know any tool for that, and I hardly can imagine that it's possible. I'd prefer to backup th

converting ext3 to ffs

2003-09-23 Thread dave
Hello, Does anyone know if it's possible to convert an ext3 partition to an ffs partition? And if so, is it possible to do it without data loss? Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi