At 12:53 28-6-2001 +0200, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
I just finished converting most of my file systems to xfs, apart from the
boot partition, and found the ordeal ... a bit loooong. And as I closed up
on my boot partition, the idea of a filesystem converter popped into mind.
Are there any plans to create one, for ext2 -> xfs?
There have been some others in the past yes, but I have just done another
conversion here which was done in under 30 minutes with 5GB of data.
I had setup a spare IDE disk for holding dump images connected to a promise
PCI IDE controller which makes it easier to stick it in a server.
It roughly went like this.
Boot single user
dump.static -0 -a -f /mnt/hde/var.dump /var
umount /var
mkfs.xfs -l size=32768b -f /dev/sda7
vi /etc/fstab (change fstype)
mount /var
cd /var
restore.static -rf /mnt/hde/var.dump
repeat.
btw. If you want to do the root partition too you would need to do it using
a rescue/installer disk since the restore.static lives in /sbin.
This was by far the easiest method that I attempted.
Bye
--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.
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