Hello Sir, Thanks a lot for ur patient replies. Sir, the problem is that the person does not want to spend time taking backing and then restoring on another disk. He wants some kind of a tool which will make the ondisk UFS/VXFS structure to that of an ext2 structure! Sir, if it is not feasible, I will have to give him strong reasons for the same. What are the practical difficulties in developing such a tool? Regards, Srikanth On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: sct>>Hi, sct>> sct>>On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 06:44:11PM +0530, SRIKANTH CHOWDARY M. K. G wrote: sct>> sct>>> The problem is that the data disks capacity is huge..infact it runs upto sct>>> some Terra bytes. Isn't there a way to avoid backing and restoring on sct>>> another disk? sct>> sct>>You could always use tape to store the data while you reformat instead. sct>> sct>>--Stephen sct>> _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users