On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:07:07PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > 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.
Maybe I will just buy a new harddrive (I wanted to buy one anyway), partition it, format it, then copy the stuff, run lilo... bang :) I guess that's the safest way to upgrade to reiserfs or xfs. What do you think? -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address
