[plug] ReiserFS and Mandrake 7.2

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Sun Feb 4 13:51:55 WST 2001


Steve Vertigan wrote:

> I've just gotten another hard drive which I plan to transfer my /home
> partition to and I thought I might try ReiserFS.   I plan to mount the
> drive under a running system, create a ext2 partition for / and a
> ReiserFS for /home then copy all my files from existing /home to the new
> directory.  Then reboot into the Mandrake 7.2 install cd and go as per
> usual.  My question is.

> 1) I presume the install process will detect an existing ReiserFS
> partition and there are no hidden pitfalls?

Should be fine. As with anything drastic, never do this with your only 
copy of precious stuff.


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