> 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?
An automatic in place converter would be a very large project and is not
something we plan on doing.
Steve
>
> 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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