| From: | paul |
| Date: | 23 Apr 2001 at 14:19:09 |
| Subject: | Re: HD`s revisited |
--- In amigactive@y..., Alan Buxey <almb@m...> wrote:
> 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.
But it would need twice as much space! Actually there is such a
tool. It's called 'copy' :-)
> 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)
Good idea. There was a port of ext2 FS a long time ago. I believe
is was when there were endian problems in the EXT2 code in the Linux
kernal (block pointers or something similar was stored in machine
specific format). Not sure where to find this but I'd suggest the
68K Linux mirrors.
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