Re: File System conversion -- ideas

Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-06-30T15:50:52Z

"David D. Hagood" <wowbagger@sktc.net> writes:

>For example, suppose you have a 60G disk, 55G of data, in ext2, and you
>wish to convert to ReiserFS.

>Step 1: Shrink the volume to 55G. This requires a "shrink disk" utility
>for the source file system (which exists for the major file systems in
>use today).

You have a 6 GB file. You lose. :-)

Regards
Henning

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