On Fri, 2 May 2003 08:53 am, derek holzer wrote: > if my main partition is /dev/hda2, and i am working from another > [temporary] root file system in /dev/hda6, how can i back up /dev/hda2 > to /dev/hda7 and put it back again after doing the ext3-->reiserfs > 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. > i assume that means if i changed dev/hda2 to reiserfs and moved the > backup copy there again, it would be ext3 all over again. i tried a few > things with cpio that didn't work, and i am not sure i have the syntax > right with tar. can someone please help me out here? Something like this? mkdir /mnt/part1 mkdir /mnt/part2 mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 /mnt/part1 mount -t ext3 /dev/hda7 /mnt/part2 cp -av /mnt/part1 /mnt/part2 [copious output] umount /mnt/part1 mkreiserfs /dev/hda2 mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/part2 -o noatime,notail cp -av /mnt/part2 /mnt/part1 [copious output] umount /mnt/part1 umount /mnt/part2 rmdir /mnt/part1 rmdir /mnt/part2 vi /etc/fstab reboot With my own system, I have seperate partitions for /home, /tmp, /usr, /var, /boot, and /, all previously in ext3. I changed fstab to mount these all as ext2 instead, and converted my /home to reiserfs using the process above (or close to). Ardour runs much nicer now. t -- GPG : http://n12turbo.com/tarragon/public.key
