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    SubjectRe: ext2 -> reiserfs conversion?
    Andreas Dilger wrote:
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    > On Aug 29, 2001 16:44 +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
    > > does any of you know if there are any plans to create an ext22reiserfs
    > > utility?
    >
    > It is probably more dangerous and difficult than it is worth. Use a
    > backup/restore, that way you also have a backup in case there is a
    > problem with the conversion.
    >
    > Since you would ALWAYS do a backup before performing such an operation
    > (right????) then doing the restore to the newly formatted reiserfs
    > partition would probably take less time than any kind of conversion
    > would take (and be a LOT more robust, as well as doing a "defrag"),
    > so you are way better off to do it that way.
    >
    > Cheers, Andreas
    > --
    > Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
    > \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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    Yes, it was the fear of a long debugging cycle that made me decide that tar over
    VFS was the most reliable conversion method, and to not attempt to do more. If
    someone was to write a tar plus resize based script, that might be reliable, and
    I would be interested to see it.

    Hans
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