Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

From: Paolo Alexis Falcone (pfalcone_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/16/04

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    On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:30:29 -0700, Marc Jackson <dechon@gmail.com> wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > I've connected a "j-bod" with to an Alpha running the latest stable
    > release of Debian linux. I can mount the filesystems as "ufs" in
    > /etc/fstab, but I can't write to them.
    > In poking around, it seems as if there is no support for writing to
    > UFS filesystems.
    >
    > Q1: is it possible to write to UFS filesystems?

    You can. Recompile the kernel to enable read/write on UFS. Note that
    this is not supported by default though.
     
    > Q2. Can I convert from UFS to ext2/3 without losing data?

    I'm not sure if convertfs can handle this. The only safe conversion is
    from ext2 to ext3. 

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Paolo Alexis Falcone
pfalcone@gmail.com
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