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From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
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Subject: Re: File System conversion -- ideas
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:05:00 +0000 (UTC)
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"David D. Hagood" <wowbagger@sktc.net> writes:

>For example, suppose you have a 60G disk, 55G of data, in ext2, and you 
>wish to convert to ReiserFS.

>Step 1: Shrink the volume to 55G. This requires a "shrink disk" utility 
>for the source file system (which exists for the major file systems in 
>use today).

You have a 6 GB file. You lose. :-)

	Regards
		Henning

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