Hello Sir, The problem is that the data disks capacity is huge..infact it runs upto some Terra bytes. Isn't there a way to avoid backing and restoring on another disk? The problem will be solved if there is WRITE support to UFS/VxFS in linux. Regards, Srikanth On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: sct>>Hi, sct>> sct>>On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:13:31PM +0530, SRIKANTH CHOWDARY M. K. G wrote: sct>> sct>>> What are the technical apects I will have to look into to achieve sct>>> the same? Is it possible to change the on-disk structure of the UFS/VxFs sct>>> filesystem to an ext2 filesystem? The question may sound weird but then sct>>> that is the requirement. sct>> sct>>I'd get another disk and just copy the stuff over. There's some vxfs sct>>and ufs support in the kernel already, which may be enough for you to sct>>get readonly access to the data under Linux. sct>> sct>>--Stephen sct>> _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users