On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:53:28AM +0200, derek holzer wrote: > conversion WITHOUT transferring back over the old file system? i tried > dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hda7, but when i mounted /dev/hda7, it was > turned into an ext3 filesystem, although i had already made it reiserfs. yep. dd does raw byte copying; you successfully wiped out your new reiserfs and dumped a binary image of your old fs onto it :) i THINK you can just do this (assuming all partitions are mounted) make the backup: tar -czvf /where/hda7/is/mounted/backup.tgz /where/hda2/is/mounted/ then create the reiserfs partition on /dev/hda2 (assuming you're not booted from there) mount /dev/hda2 somewhere cd somewhere tar -xzvf /where/hda7/is/mounted/backup.tgz then if /dev/hda2 is your root partition (i'm not clear from what you said) edit somewhere/etc/fstab appropriately and if you /boot is on /dev/hda2, you'll need to run lilo telling it to use somewhere/etc/lilo.conf (i forget what flag you use ... man lilo) ... unless of course you don't use lilo :) sorry for not being more clear, i haven't done this in a year or two. -- Paul Winkler home: http://www.slinkp.com "Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!"
