You might want to go ahead and reformat /usr/local and /var, making back
ups of stuff in /var that you need. I don't know of any specific
differences, but /var is one of those directories whose layout seems to
change a little between versions. /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/bin will
be incompatible with your new system because of the binary
incompatibilities of gcc-2.95 of mandrake 7.x and gcc-2.96 of mandrake
8.0. This is what I understand at least, so if I'm wrong, someone please
correct me.
Concerning your question about switching to reiser, I'm not sure, sorry to
not be of more help. If you do try something that works, would you mind
posting it?
Thanks a lot,
Dave Grogan
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Daniel Woods wrote:
> I want to upgrade a current LM7.1 server with 8.0-Freq version.
> I will do a fresh install but not re-formatting /home, /usr/local,
> /var to keep the data as is. The other partitions can be formatted.
> They are currently ext2fs and I wanted to know if the install
> would convert them to reiserfs if I ask it to, or do I simply install
> as ext2fs and then convert all partitions later ? How do I convert
> the partitions (what commands, docs) ?
>
> Thanks... Dan.
>
>
>
