Re: File System conversion -- ideas

Frank Gevaerts (frank@gevaerts.be)
Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:13:51 +0200

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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:04:37PM -0400, Matt Reuther wrote:
> It seems like the loopback device would be useful for this. You can move
> all of you stuff into a mounted loopback device with the new fs. Is there
> not some utility to take a filesystem image from inside an fs, and
> overwrite that fs with it. It would be lots of sector-to-sector shuffling,
> but it would be cleaner than trying to convert.

http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/ as someone (I don't remember who)
said earlier.

Frank

> Matt
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