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reaz82
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 Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:30 am Post subject: how to 'upgrade' to reiser4 without booting |
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i am not sure where i read this so i am asking this question..
i know it's not possible to upgrade with the data on the drive.. so i backed up the data on another drive.. and now what do i do?
i dont want to reboot..
can anyone help ? |
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juppe22
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:38 am Post subject: |
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If you have reiser4 support on your kernel then you can do it this way...
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emerge libaal reiser4progs
umount /dev/hdX
mkfs.reiser4 /dev/hdX
mount /dev/hdX /path/to
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And then copy your data back... |
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reaz82
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:40 am Post subject: |
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| but i am on the drive.. how can i unmount it if i am on it.. do i have to do something like change my init session? |
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juppe22
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| reaz82 wrote: | | but i am on the drive.. how can i unmount it if i am on it.. do i have to do something like change my init session? |
I think it is imposible...You have to boot livecd with reiser4 support... |
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