From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 30 16:52:32 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 842B816A41A for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:52:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman@crackmonkey.us) Received: from crackmonkey.us (crackmonkey.us [70.58.166.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC0713C4DE for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:52:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman@crackmonkey.us) Received: from tarani-bosatsu.dreamtrack.dnsalias.com (cpc1-swin7-0-0-cust216.brhm.cable.ntl.com [::ffff:86.18.88.217]) (AUTH: PLAIN fatman, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by crackmonkey.us with esmtp; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:46:01 -0600 id 0018800B.46D6F44F.00000E93 Message-ID: <46D6F3AA.4070807@crackmonkey.us> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:43:22 +0100 From: Adam J Richardson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070830) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Konrad Scorciapino References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrating from reiserfs to ext3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:52:32 -0000 Konrad Scorciapino wrote: > Anybody ever tried something like that? Are there utilities that could help > out, or dangers I need to avoid? Hi Konrad. I tried that once. I managed to destroy a disk and lose almost 30GB of data. I still cry over that one. Mind you, I was using Windows, back in the days of FAT. I knew even less than I do now. It'd be much easier and safer to copy everything to another disk and then erase that partition. You'd lose less hair, sleep and sanity. If you do go ahead with this salami slice procedure, halfway through it you'll be cursing the day you were born. You'll have to concentrate so as not to overwrite the wrong partition. Get it wrong once and you've lost your data or one of your OSes. It's boring, tedious and mind numbingly dull, which increases the odds of a mistake. Really, I'd bite the bullet and buy a nice shiny new backup HDD. I'd do it to avoid the tedium alone. 180GB... a 200GB HDD shouldn't be that expensive, although I grant it's been a while since I bought a HDD. Perhaps a geek friend has a spare HDD you can borrow? HtH, Adam J Richardson