On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:03:40PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: :What are the next steps to move to reiserfs as root filesystem? Is :there a good howto around? : :Can I just cp -a the whole root to another spare filesystem, :reformat / to reiserfs and then copy it back?
Hmmm... I haven't done this, but what I'd do is copy the files in / some where (very carefully to preserve permissions and preferably time stamps, I like to use cpio but you can also do it with tar, "cp -a" might be good enough). Make sure this some where is the top of another partition so you can twiddle you lilo.conf, run lilo and use this new place as root temporarily. Reboot. mkreiserfs on the old root, copy the root fs back, reset lilo, reboot. or it may be simpler to tar up you root, boot from a rescue disk (with reiserfs support), mkreiserfs on the root, untar your magic tarball, and reboot. Though in all likely hood you'll need to rerun lilo in there since the physical location of your kernel image will change. Not sure about that so much. Just some thought, take with generous portions of salt. -Jon
