Re: convert from fedora with reiserfs to centos-4.3

[robin at mordasiewicz.com (Robin Mordasiewicz)]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Scott Silva wrote:

> Robin Mordasiewicz spake the following on 3/30/2006 12:48 PM:
>> I upgraded a box running fedora core 2 to Centos-4.3
>> The fedora core box has a reiserfs file system, which I am assuming is
>> not supported in the CentOS kernel. I tried the unsupported kernel but I
>> still get a kernel panic.
>>
>> Can I either convert to ext3, or possibly install something that will
>> make my reiserfs filesystem work ?
>>
> You can not convert, you must backup - create - restore.. Or at least make new
> mount point in ext2 and cp or rsync over.
> The kernel unsupported does have reiserfs support, but you would need to make
> sure it is in your initrd.

ok I will just backup and restore.