On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > On Friday 09 July 2010 00:53:55 Sthu Deus wrote: >> Is there a way to: >> >> . boot from internal HDD then >> >> . chroot or whatever to externel HDD (with the same Debian clone >> copy) >> >> . format the internal HDD, > > pivot_root is supposed to do this in a way that allows you to umount the old > '/' cleanly. It is used in modern initramfs. > >> . move the OS back from external to internal HDD? >> >> I have to do so because it is impossible for now to boot from CD/USB. >> And I want to move from ext3 to ext4. > > You can use some of the ext4 features on a existing file system by using > tune2fs to turn them on. That would eliminate the need for a "format" and re- > install.
You can use all of an ext4's features on an ext2/ext3 system / upgrade an ext2/ext3 filesystem to ext4 with tune2fs. For example for / (assuming that it is sda1) init 1 mount -o remount,ro / fsck.ext2 -pf /dev/sda1 tune2fs -O [has_journal,]large_file,huge_file,extents,dir_index,uninit_bg /dev/sda1 fsck.ext2 -fD /dev/sda1 init 6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktim-28xpf-n1y9nuijffydakx6fh80tstw7ne...@mail.gmail.com
