does anyone know of a method of converting a partition formatted in ReiserFS
to Ext3 NON-DESTRUCTIVELY? And without moving the data in and out. Ie.
tar cvz /datadir; umount /datadir; mke3fs /dev/hdXX; mount /dev/hdXX -t ext3
/datadir; tar xvz /datadir
is the type of scenario. What I want is this:
umount /datadir; conversion /dev/hdXX; mount /dev/hdXX -t ext3 /datadir
That is the type of solution I'm after, if one is available.
Reason I ask is this:
I have a machine that has 7.1 that is my database server. I needed
journaling capabilities, so I formatted a couple of the partitions as
reiserfs. I wanted to do ext3
but I could not find any ext3 patches for the 2.4 series kernel (and the
ones in RedHat's Kernel SRPM are still the only ones I've seen). The kernel
did, however, support Reiserfs, so I downloaded and installed the reiserfs
tools and formatted as reiserfs. But Reiserfs has a couple of quirks that I
really have been upset with (like reiserfsck ABORTING when called from fsck
(ie. calling reiserfsck -a [like fsck would] will immediately terminate the
prog. with returncode of 0). I've asked and asked if there was a way to make
reiserfsck more compatible with fsck so I didn't have to umount the dir and
manually run reiserfsck if the machine shuts down uncleanly.
If absolutely necessary I can copy the data off and then back on, but that
is so much of a pain (since I have over 1.2 GB of data, much of which is
already compressed) that I want to avoid it if I can. However, Ext3 being
integrated with fsck is a *VERY* big plus for what I need.
Thanks!
Dan Egli
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