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Date:      Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:26:17 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>
To:        dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: converting ext3 to ffs
Message-ID:  <20030924082331.L29503@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <000901c38233$ce662710$0200a8c0@satellite>
References:  <000901c38233$ce662710$0200a8c0@satellite>

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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, dave wrote:

>     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?
> Thanks.
> Dave.

I don't know any tool for that, and I hardly can imagine that it's
possible. I'd prefer to backup the data by using tar, to create a new ffs
in that partition and to restore the data.

Regards

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