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Jay Mistry wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Patrick
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<div class="im">On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 12:39 +0530, Jay Mistry wrote:<br>
> I would like to convert / & /home partitions that are ext4 to
ext3.<br>
> Can this be done without loss of data ?<br>
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Ok, backward-incompatible.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Jay</div>
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My first thought is that if you are using LVM you can shrink the
partitions and create new ext3 partitions, mount them elsewhere (such
as /usr/temp1/ and /usr/temp2/), copy the filesystems over from the old
partitions (with attributes intact) and then edit your fstab to use the
new ext3 partitions instead of the old. After a reboot (or a manual
unmount and remount process) you can then delete the old partitions and
then resize the new ones to encompass the freed up space.<br>
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Don't forget to backup first.<br>
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Heck it might even be easier to just back up the partitions, delete and
remake them as ext3, and restore.<br>
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I'm sure there are other ways, probably easier and "cooler" from a
geekiness perspective to pull off.<br>
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Paul
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