1 May
2003
1 May
'03
10:10 p.m.
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
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