Switching to Reiser...

quantum0726 · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 26 Location: Milwaukee, WI

Hi, I have four harddrives in a server that are all formatted ext3. I would love to convert all of them to reiserfs, but unfortunately I don't have enough space to move all the data off and repartition them. I can for one, but it'll be tricky and won't help me with the other three.

I can probably guess what the answer is, but I thought I'd put up a post anyway just in case. Is there any way I could convert them on the fly (i.e. without my data still on the drives)?
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kfiaciarka · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:04 am Post subject:

IMHO it is not possible. But if you have server and maybe you have raid then try xfs.

AaronPPC · Guru Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 522 Location: Tucson, AZ

Even if you could it wouldn't be wise to do so without backing up the data first. That puts you in the same spot.
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