| From: | Warren Katchmar |
| Date: | 15 Aug 2000 at 03:50:55 |
| Subject: | Re: Changing from FFS to SFS or PFS (or from SFS/PFS to FFS etc.) |
Hello Roger,
Great job, thanks.
> Someone (or more) asked something like this:
>>> How involved of a process is it to switch from FFS to SFS?
> Answer: (I will refer to FFS and SFS in this example)
> 1. Backup all data on the FFS partition that you wish to change to SFS.
> (backup to a CD-R or a empty partition, or use a backup util etc.)
> (only use a backup util that copy the CONTENTS of the partition,
> i.e the files/dirs etc)
> 2. Next use HDToolbox (or preferably the util you used to setup your HD)
> Change the filesystem from FFS to SFS.
> (copy the SFS filesystem file to to the L: directory first)
> Then tell your HD prep util to save the changes.
On step 2, I was not sure about which filesystem to use. I went to
HDToolbox and clicked on Change . . . Then I had the following choices:
standard file system
custom file system
uni\01 file system
I chose the uni\01 file system
It seem to work. I was able to format it with sfsformat and it came up
okay.
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