> What would be the best way to accomplish this (without doing a > re-install)? I was thinking of the following procedure: > > - boot from the LiveCD > - use tar to backup a partition to some temporary location (making > sure tar preserves links, permissions, ownership, etc) > - re-format the partition as ext3 > - use tar to move the data from the temp location to the newly > formatted ext3 partition > > I would repeat this procedure for every one of my reiserfs partitions. > > Finally, I would update /etc/fstab to reflect the changes. > > Assuming I didn't make any mistakes in the above procedure, would this > preserve my system integrity?
If you end up doing this please post how it went. The question seems to be, just how complete is tar? And what options does it need to catch everything. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
