On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 at 20:45, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote: > why can't i just connect another hard drive to the machine. partition > this hard drive and then format it with the new filesystem in question > and copy the files over.
That's a "destructive process". Why? You used a buffer, to which you put the data, then destroyed the old filesystem, created a new one, and then restored from the buffer. A "non destructive process" would have been an in-position conversion from one filesystem to the other. Or in the case of ext2/ext3, on the fly (?) with a simple remount after creating the journal inode. > this is crude but it should work with any filesystem diba? It will assuming your kernel supports both filesystems. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
