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From: Yousuf Khan on 16 Jan 2010 00:30
I have my home folder mounted to a reiserfs filesystem. Though reiser is
fine as a filesystem, it tends to spew out some informational/warning
messages on the console while it's booting up, which interupts the
usplash screen. It's annoying, so I'd like to know if there's a way to
get it to not always do that. And failing that I'd like to convert the
filesystem to Ext3 or Ext4, which doesn't interrupt the usplash screen
so often. Is there a converter app for it?

The only thing I can think of right now is to archive the filesystem and
erase it and recreate it in the new filesystem.

Yousuf Khan
From: J.O. Aho on 16 Jan 2010 04:22
Yousuf Khan wrote:
> I have my home folder mounted to a reiserfs filesystem. Though reiser is
> fine as a filesystem, it tends to spew out some informational/warning
> messages on the console while it's booting up, which interupts the
> usplash screen.

If it's warnings, then you will most likely have got those regardless of which
file system you had been using, fix those faults then with reiserfsck.


> It's annoying, so I'd like to know if there's a way to
> get it to not always do that. And failing that I'd like to convert the
> filesystem to Ext3 or Ext4, which doesn't interrupt the usplash screen
> so often. Is there a converter app for it?

There is a tool named convertfs, but see to have a backup of your file system,
see to that you have fixed all problems the file system may have before you
try to convert, you will need to run fsck after your convert has been finished.
If you are to do it for your root file system, then you will need to find a
LiveCD with the tool, as you can't do it on a mounted file system.

IMHO ext3 ain't good enough and ext4 is too experimental, you get a better
file system by picking jfs, xfs or reiserfs.


--

//Aho
From: Martin on 16 Jan 2010 08:17
Yousuf Khan wrote:

> Is there a converter app for it?

The safest way is to copy the entire fs content into a tar archive on
another partition, call mkfs to initialize the fs, and finally unpack the
tar archive in the newly created fs.

Martin
From: Thomas on 16 Jan 2010 09:45
J.O. Aho wrote:
> Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> I have my home folder mounted to a reiserfs filesystem. Though reiser is
>> fine as a filesystem, it tends to spew out some informational/warning
>> messages on the console while it's booting up, which interupts the
>> usplash screen.
<snip>
>
> IMHO ext3 ain't good enough and ext4 is too experimental, you get a better
> file system by picking jfs, xfs or reiserfs.
>
>

I read on arstechnica this morning that google is converting its
servers to ext4 from ext2.
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/01/google-upgrading-to-ext4-hires-former-linux-foundation-cto.ars

--
Tom
From: Kadaitcha Man on 16 Jan 2010 09:51
"Thomas", thou swag-bellied weed. I had rather be a toad, and live upon
the vapour of a dungeon, than keep a corner with thee. Ye extravagated:

> I read on arstechnica this morning that google is converting its
> servers to ext4 from ext2.

> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/01/google-upgrading-to-
> ext4-hires-former-linux-foundation-cto.ars

"Google ... reveals that the search giant is in the process of upgrading
its storage infrastructure from Ext2 to Ext4."

Either you are complete fuckwit or you can't read, or all three.

I punt for the latter.
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