Perhaps an ignorant question, but can I ask why are you selecting ext2 instead of a journalled solution? I would think that an fsck on several terabytes would take "a very long time". On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 08:48, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:14:39PM +0530, SRIKANTH CHOWDARY M. K. G wrote: > > > 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? > > You would spend longer writing and testing the tool than doing the > backup, reformat and restore. I mean, would you seriously considering > running an unproven format conversion tool on several TB of data > without a tape backup in any case? Given that you _need_ backups, > that sounds like the only sane way to go. > > --Stephen > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
