Stan Brown wrote: >Without reformating it? While it's mounted?
unfortunately, no. ReiserFS is way too different from ext2fs. Ext2fs (as well as its progeny ext3fs) is an inode (information node) based filesystem. Inode based filesystems store pertinent file data in (as expected) inodes, and has been around quite a very long time since the days of AT&T Unix. Ext3 is just Ext2 with journalling thus its backward and forward compatible with ext2. Other examples of inode- based filesystems would be XFS, NTFS(?- I ain't sure about this), and BSD's UFS. ReiserFS is an example of a radical filesystem based on fast-balanced trees (I simply couldn't believe it at first that Hans Reiser was able to make such a theoretical concept such as AVL-trees, wherein the fast-balanced tree algo was derived, to work on a filesystem. I thought back then that it's just for memory and dynamic variable stuff). ReiserFS doesn't use inodes, so tough luck. Reiserfsprogs won't reformat a mounted drive. And should you convert your filesystem to reiserfs, you really need to backup your data. Paolo Alexis Falcone __________________________________ www.edsamail.com
