On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 at 14:09, Rafael R. Sevilla wrote:
>By the way, is there a way to nondestructively convert ext2 into reiser
>or some other journaling file system?
AFAIK you can convert ext2 to ext3 and back with neither data loss nor the
need to reformat. To convert to ReiserFS (or even between hashes in
ReiserFS) you will need to backup and reformat (mkreiserfs). I don't think
you get any performance increase with ext3, though. I moved to ReiserFS
primarily for the "aggressiveness", so I didn't consider ext3 anymore. :)
>I don't want to have to reinstall Linux just to change file systems, and
>i don't have enough free space to back everything up while doing so...
Why would you have to reinstall Linux? Just a change in kernel and of
course, that moving around of your data. ReiserFS "installs" (formats?) on
partition type 83 (or is that 82?), just the same as ext2, so no need to
repartition or to get some exotic fdisk. But you still wipe out a
partition. So maybe ext3 might be for you. Haven't tried that, though.
--> Jijo :-)
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