kingy444 Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Looking to convert my current system from reinfrs to xfs. I have looked at http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/File_System_Conversion but feel it's more complicated than what I need. i currently have an empty XFS drive large enough to house the data from another drive. im curious, what's wrong with moving data to the empty XFS, reformat the newly empty drive and rinse and repeat? Quote Link to comment
gubbgnutten Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 2 hours ago, kingy444 said: im curious, what's wrong with moving data to the empty XFS, reformat the newly empty drive and rinse and repeat? Nothing wrong with that, really, that's basically how I did it: Copy data to empty disk, verify checksums, format old disk, rinse, repeat... Quote Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Remember that you have to do a disk-to-disk copy. You can't involve the user shares in the copy! (This is a precautionary warning as you may be already aware of it.) You also have to make sure that nothing is writing to the array at the time of the copy or you could miss some newly written/updated files. Quote Link to comment
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