Re: Converting from Reiser to Ext3

Alexander Swen wrote:
Do you have any reference of this, because what I have found did show
that it was possible with EXT3 in at least kernel 2.6.10
a while ago i was searching for resize options of ext3 (because I
wanted to have that option) and I was in the installprocess and
choosing a fs type, here's what I found (and then chose reiser because
I already was familiar with that)

http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/resizing-ext3-partitions-with-parted

<quote>
I just resized my ext3 partition with gparted. Very easy. No problems
encountered.
</quote>

and
http://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2004-April/msg00039.html

Look at the date. That is outdated info.

I just looked and found this:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-June/msg05660.html
The turning on and off of journalling isn't needed; resize2fs can handle
ext3 filesystems just fine.


houghi
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anything -- just give him time to rationalize it.
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