S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: > On 4/4/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 21:14 +0600, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: >> > My system now runing on reiserfs partation, i want to make it ext3 >> > without reinstalling debian. any idea ? >> >> You have to have a spare partition large enough to handle each >> partition's data in a tar.gz file. >> >> Do you have this? if no... then I am sorry. >> >> If yes, please respond on list to this. And I will write a summary on >> how to do it. >> -- >> > yea, i have , please write details.
If you have enough disk space to accomodate your data *without* compression you could do the following: - boot a 'rescue system' (I recommend knoppix) from CD or usb - mount both your partition and the one with the free space - rsync -avx your data to the free space - reformat your partition to ext3 (all data will be lost, so make sure you have good backups!) - rsync all your data back to the new ext3-partition - adjust your /etc/fstab (replace reiserfs by ext3) - cross your fingers and reboot tar would work on similar lines. tar can use compression, rsync is probably faster (plus you have all your files as a backup; if one of those files would get corrupted not everything is lost). Take care that you properly understand each step, verify the options. Be aware that a typo may lead to data loss... Take care, good luck! Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
