Change from reiserfs to ext3

tomaw · Guru Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 429 Location: UK

After several events that have caused me to have to use fsck on reiserfs (losing some files each time, I'll add...) I've decided to move over to ext3.
Should be noted that this decision is quite final, somehow my confidence has been hit

I have two partitions, root and home, both reiserfs. The home partition will be backed up to DVD as it's a disorganised mess and needs the attention anyway. However, I'm looking for a way to backup and restore the root partition.

Can I just:

Crimson Rider · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:04 pm Post subject:

To bad your decision is final, myself I have great confindence in ReiserFS

But if you want to move all from one filesystem to another you can use this procedure.

Mount both file systems, say at

/mnt/old
/mnt/new

then issue the following command

find /mnt/old -xdev | cpio -pvmd /mnt/new

I've used it mutiple times to move around my root fs while experimenting with LVM, ReiserFS, Ext3 and XFS.

I realize it is not backing up your root, but I assume you want to preserve your root to use it again, and you can do it this way.

Hope that helps

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