Re: ext3 to ReiserFS (was Re: [Nolug] postfix, Maildir and non-$HOME delivery)

On Monday 03 November 2003 12:56 pm, Joey Kelly wrote:
> Thou spake:
> <snip>
>
> >/var/mail would have been ReiserFS. All those little files just
> >scream for ReiserFS.
> >
> >Is there a way to do an in situo partition conversion from ext[23]
> >to ReiserFS? None that I've heard of, but others may know.
>
> I think the easiest way would be to copy the partition over to a
> spare hard drive, reformat for reiser, then copy the data back.
>
> When I say "copy", this might be more involved than "cp -R". I moved
> a partition once, and it wasn't fun. YMMV.

Use afio, rsync, or tar, not cp

-- 
Tim Kelley
tpk at 23rdward dot org
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