Reiser4?

codedmart · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 3:35 pm Post subject: Reiser4?

How does reiser4 work? I have my / and /home partitions as reiserfs and I got the latest ck-sources. If you compile reiser4 into the kernel does it automatically use that for those partitions or do you have to do something to the partitions?

ledskof · Apprentice Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 209

You have to make the partitions reiser4. There is no magic reiser4 conversion and reiserfs and reiser4 are not binary comaptible.

You have to make reiser4 partitions the same way you made resierfs partitions, but you use mkfs.reiser4 instead.

codedmart · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject:

Is there a way to do that on an already installed system without losing data?

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

a) get a kernel with reiser4, compile and install it
b) emerge reiser4progs
c) make an exact copy of your root partition somewhere safe
d) clear that partition and make a new reiser4 one in its stead
e) put all the files back
f) reboot into your reiser4 system

this all can be best done from redeemans' livecd - use search to find it.