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From: "Leonard Milcin Jr." <thervoy@post.pl>
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Subject: Re: File System conversion -- ideas
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Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> "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
> 

Hey folk! I don't used LVM, but I think it allows file to be splitted 
between diferent filesystems. Yes?


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