On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Andrew Mathews wrote: > Tom Wilson wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I got me a shiny new PC last week. I am in process of backing up the > > data off my old pc to get it ready for the new. > > > > I was going to install Linux w/ ext3 filesystem on the new pc, the old > > one has ext2. Can I restore to the new if it is ext3? Or to I have to > > install it as ext2, restore my backups, then convert to ext3? > > > > TIA, > > > > You'll have to convert it to XFS first, at which time you'll decide to > keep it that way. ;)
Indeed. > Seriously, you should have no problems copying your files from ext2 to > ext3 as 3 is simply 2 with a journal. What distro are you planning on using? Also matters how the data is backed up. But if you're going to go through the time in restoring from backup to a new box, you might as well do it on a reliable filesystem, namely, XFS. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
