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chrispoole

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Registered: 2008-12-30

Posts: 121

Good plan to convert /var from Reiser to ext3?

I'm currently using Reiser3 for /var, but want to make it ext3 (deterioration of Reiser support, etc.).

I want to confirm that I'm doing the right thing, and shouldn't lose data this way:

1) Boot from liveCD (Ubuntu or something), and mount local filesystems.

2) cd /var && tar czvf /home/chris/var.tar.gz * .*

3) Unmount partitions.

4) Use gparted to wipe /var partition and write as ext3.

5) Mount partitions.

6) Change fstab options.

7) cd /var && tar xzvf /home/chris/var.tar.gz

Should this work fine, and catch all files in /var? Or do I have to watch out for something else?

muunleit

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 234

Re: Good plan to convert /var from Reiser to ext3?

I did it that way to move some partitions from ext3 to jfs, but just copied without tar.
I had no problems.

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