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On 8/26/05, Catalin Trifu <catalin@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have a computer at home which I use as a test machine (from time to time) |
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> and I decided some time ago to play with reiser4, which was said to be faster |
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> than reiserfs and which should outperform it. |
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> I have a fair processor (p4 2GHz) and 1GB RAM which is imho a pretty good |
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> combination. |
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> However, I am quite unhappy with how reiser4 performs. |
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> Is there an easy way switch back my reiser4 partition to reiserfs without |
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> reinstalling everything. |
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I suggest booting from a Gentoo CD. Make a tarball of the entire FS |
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you want to convert and either pipe it across the network or onto |
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another HD you can put in this machine. Reformat the partition. |
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Untarball the backup onto the newly formatted partition. You also need |
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to make sure you alter your fstab to mount the partition right (and |
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alter your grub or other boot config files accordingly as well). |
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Justin Patrin |
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