Re: [LI] Journalism^H^Hng File System

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 11:23:10AM +0530, skhader@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> A question on Journalling file system.
> Has anybody here tried ReiserFS ??
> I would like to convert my present ext2 filesystem to ReiserFS
> completely rather than just creating a new ReiserFS filesystem
> and using it as temp or dump directory !
> Is that possible ?? And has anybody applied that patch
> to the latest kernel on stable side ( i.e. 2.2.14pre12 )

Yes -  you need some temp space though.

temp = tar-cfz(oldfs)
fs = new reiserfs
tar-xzf(oldfs)

Perhaps it's better to wait for the next SuSE release ?

	-Arun

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