On Nov 14, 2002 15:13 +0530, SRIKANTH CHOWDARY M. K. G wrote: > I have been assigned some work on the development of a migration > tool. The requirement is that it has to migrate the data on a UFS/VxFs > filesystem to an ext2 filesystem. > > What are the technical apects I will have to look into to achieve > the same? Is it possible to change the on-disk structure of the UFS/VxFs > filesystem to an ext2 filesystem? The question may sound weird but then > that is the requirement. > > Kindly help me. Kindly send a cc of your mails to > srikanth.chowdary@tatainfotech.com as I have not subscribed to this list. By far the easiest and most robust way of doing this sort of thing is to mount the existing filesystem under Linux, create a second filesystem with ext2/ext3 on it, and "tar cf - -C <old mnt> . | tar xvpf - -C <ext2 mnt>" This not only works very well, but also has the benefit of defragmenting your files and laying them out properly for ext2 instead of in-place conversion. Failing that, I would suggest looking at libext2fs and if there is a similar library for UFX/VxFs and seeing what can be done. I would be surprised if you could do any sort of reasonable in-place conversion because inodes and other data structure alignment will be different. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
