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black hole sun
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 Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 11:20 pm Post subject: ReiserFS -> Reiser4: Possible? |
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Is it possible to change filesystems without completely reinstalling Gentoo?  |
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yngwin
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Make a complete backup, reformat with mkfs.reiser4 and put the backup back. 
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yes and no, you need to make a copy of your data and reformat your root device... There's no "conversion" tool (yet) if that's what your're looking for
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black hole sun
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Hrm, was hoping it would be simpler. Do you guys have any links on how exactly one goes about "backing up" an entire OS, as I've never done it before. I could probably manage it on Windows, but for Linux... Do I just back up the entire contents of "/" and then put them back after I remake my file system? How'd you that?
Oh and what would be the creation command? "mkreiser4"? |
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Archangel1
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| Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Just have a look for it through /sbin.... mkfs.reiser4 is probably a good place to start. |
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yngwin
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| black hole sun wrote: | | Hrm, was hoping it would be simpler. Do you guys have any links on how exactly one goes about "backing up" an entire OS, as I've never done it before. I could probably manage it on Windows, but for Linux... Do I just back up the entire contents of "/" and then put them back after I remake my file system? How'd you that? |
partimage would be a good tool for that, it's in portage
| black hole sun wrote: | | Oh and what would be the creation command? "mkreiser4"? |
like I said: mkfs.reiser4
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