RE: [expert] how to convert from ext2fs to reiserfs ?

2001-07-27 Thread Gregor Maier
On 27-Jul-2001 Daniel Woods wrote: I want to upgrade a current LM7.1 server with 8.0-Freq version. I will do a fresh install but not re-formatting /home, /usr/local, /var to keep the data as is. The other partitions can be formatted. They are currently ext2fs and I wanted to know if the

[expert] how to convert from ext2fs to reiserfs ?

2001-07-26 Thread Daniel Woods
I want to upgrade a current LM7.1 server with 8.0-Freq version. I will do a fresh install but not re-formatting /home, /usr/local, /var to keep the data as is. The other partitions can be formatted. They are currently ext2fs and I wanted to know if the install would convert them to reiserfs if I

Re: [expert] how to convert from ext2fs to reiserfs ?

2001-07-26 Thread David Scott Grogan
You might want to go ahead and reformat /usr/local and /var, making back ups of stuff in /var that you need. I don't know of any specific differences, but /var is one of those directories whose layout seems to change a little between versions. /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/bin will be