On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:03:25PM -0700, parvath reddy suprima wrote:
> can u tell me how to partition the disk and mount XFS and my Debian
> machine already has ext3 filesystem mounted on the disk.
ideally you need to boot with something that is XFS aware and create a
new XFS filesystem and move the data over
> do i hav to make system backup before i mount XFS and how to do it..
backups never hurt, i would recommend them if you can. if you want to
try and move the data in-place there is something called convertfs:
http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/
i've never used it but i'm told is works although can be very slow
> please can u help me with this...
why do you really need to change?
--cw
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