| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 23 Apr 2001 at 14:07:35 |
| Subject: | Re: HD`s revisited |
hi,
> > you have to format the partition, you cant just change the type of
> > filesystem on the fly....though a tool that could do THAT job would be
> > VERY VERY neat.
>
> AFS came with such a tool, written by Holger Kruse. However, the
> majority of problems experienced with AFS were by people who had use the
> converter instead of reformatting and restoring from backup.
nah, I mean a general OS tool that can take any filesystem and convert to
another. it'd have to have some temp place whilst doing some of the
work...but it should be doable.
anyway, I may have to learn to code Amiga filesystems it seems as not only
do I want ext2 access under AmigaOS but I wouldnt mind some of that
reiserFS either! (I converted my boxen at work to reiser ages ago)
> Holger was also writing a version of Re-Org for AFS, until he got ripped
> off by the publishers.
ack.
alan
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