From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 23 23:26:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9BCE16A4B3 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:26:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.8.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E12343FE1 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:26:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8O6QIaw029514; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:26:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer2@localhost)h8O6QHP0029511; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:26:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu60.gwdg.de: kheuer2 owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:26:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: dave In-Reply-To: <000901c38233$ce662710$0200a8c0@satellite> Message-ID: <20030924082331.L29503@gwdu60.gwdg.de> References: <000901c38233$ce662710$0200a8c0@satellite> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: converting ext3 to ffs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 06:26:21 -0000 On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, dave wrote: > Does anyone know if it's possible to convert an ext3 partition to an ffs > partition? And if so, is it possible to do it without data loss? > Thanks. > Dave. I don't know any tool for that, and I hardly can imagine that it's possible. I'd prefer to backup the data by using tar, to create a new ffs in that partition and to restore the data. Regards Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany