ext2 can be migrated to ext3 and back without any loss. It's done by running tune2fs -j /dev/whatever. This is one of the nicer features of ext3. You'll also need to change it's type in /etc/fstab from ext2 to ext3. As for kernel support, try it and see. If your kernel doesn't support it tune2fs probably won't either and it won't hurt anything to try because ext3 is backward compatible. You can mount an ext3 fs as ext2 without any trouble.
As for moving to Reiser or whatever you pretty much have to copy your stuff somewhere and copy it back, there's no real way around it. On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:37:59 -0600, Lloyd Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, everybody... > > What does it take to migrate file systems from one type (eg. ext2) to > something a bit newer (eg. ext3, Reiser, etc)? Can they be somehow > converted without data loss? For that matter, how do I go about making > sure that the system supports the file system I'm looking for? Is this > a kernel feature? > > Thanks, > Lloyd Brown > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
