Re: Moving to reiserfs with kernel 2.4.3

2001-06-07 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
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

Re: Moving to reiserfs with kernel 2.4.3

2001-06-07 Thread Alex Suzuki
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).

Re: Moving to reiserfs with kernel 2.4.3

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Carrigan
Alex Suzuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? I have been slowly migrating some e

Re: Moving to reiserfs with kernel 2.4.3

2001-06-07 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:53:07AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: > 3. Run `parted /dev/hda' and do I will use Partition Magic for this. It never failed me, and it is very easy to use. You can just pop in the 2 floppys and you have a fully-featured UI to shrink, move, convert, delete, create partitio

Re: Moving to reiserfs with kernel 2.4.3

2001-06-07 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:14:39 +0200 Alex Suzuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will use Partition Magic for this. It never failed me, and it is > very easy to use. You can just pop in the 2 floppys and you have a > fully-featured UI to shrink, move, convert, delete, create partitions. Don't forget

Re: Moving to reiserfs with kernel 2.4.3

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Carrigan
Alex Suzuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I will use Partition Magic for this. It never failed me, and it is > very easy to use. You can just pop in the 2 floppys and you have a > fully-featured UI to shrink, move, convert, delete, create partitions. I've never used Partition Magic, but if it can

Re: Moving to reiserfs with kernel 2.4.3

2001-06-07 Thread Sean Morgan
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 05:46:33PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Does anyone know how Reiser partitions can be resized? I > know there is something built into the filesystem but I've never worked > out how to use this feature. man 8 resize_reiserfs, it wasn't documented for the longest time...