converting ext3 to ffs

Mike Hogsett hogsett at csl.sri.com
Wed Sep 24 09:59:10 PDT 2003


>     Does anyone know if it's possible to convert an ext3 partition to an
> ffs partition? And if so, is it possible to do it without data loss?

dump(8) and restore(8)* may do the trick.  I would recommend dumping from
an os where ext3 is native (e.g. linux) and then restore on a os where ffs
is native (e.g. FreeBSD).

 - Mike


[*] umount, dump, disklabel, newfs, mount, restore



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