Quoting Marvin Pascual ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Any HOWTO?
You need somewhere to put your files, while deleting and recreating the filesystems they've been living on. If you don't have anywhere else to use for that purpose, you can borrow the space currently being used by your swap filesystem(s). Install the reiserfsprogs package. Boot a maintenance disk such as a LNX-BBC disk. Mount a filesystem to be converted. Create some sort of filesystem (ext2 will do fine) on some empty space. Mount it. Use "cp -ax" to copy the files for safekeeping. Verify that you got everything. Do a umount of the old filesystem. do mkreiserfs of the filesystem you just vacated. Mount it as type reiserfs. Copy the files back. Delete them from temporary storage. Repeat with each of the other filesystems. At the end, edit your /etc/fstab to change the filesystem-type references to reiserfs. The line for your root filesystem will probably say "defaults,errors=remount-ro": Change the "ro" to "rw". Do "/sbin/lilo -r /foo" where "/foo" is wherever you have mounted what would normally be your root filesystem. Make sure your boot configuration comes up clean. Reboot. Be careful to make sure your files are always backed up at each stage. -- Cheers, "By reading this sentence, you agree to be bound by the Rick Moen terms of the Internet Protocol, version 4, or, at your [EMAIL PROTECTED] option, any later version." -- Seth David Schoen _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
