On Monday 16 February 2004, conall at conall.net (Conall O'Brien) wrote:
>After a quick gooling around, I can't find any info on a conversion
>system from Ext3 (my current fs) to XFS without resorting to tarballing
>my system, deleting partitions, making XFS partitions and reinstating my
>tarball.
>>I don't suppose anyone on the list with XFS experience has more useful
>info?
I don't have any experience of xfs, but I don't need any to answer the
question - xfs and ext3 are different ways of laying out data on disk, and you
can't convert from one to the other on the same partition without doing what
you already mentioned. You don't need to delete partitions as such, but you do
need to make filesystems on them anew. It's a data destructive process.
Niall
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