Need help converting ReiserFs to HFS or Fat32

Kerry Hoath kerry at gotss.net
Mon Jun 9 11:09:40 EDT 2008


I said maximum file size;
Perhaps the maximum file size is 4gb, I don't run fat32 on any boxes here 
anymore.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sergei V. Fleytin" <fleytin at yandex.ru>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: Need help converting ReiserFs to HFS or Fat32


Hello,

Abtually a minimum file size for fat32 is 4gb.

Regars,

Sergei.


Kerry Hoath wrote:
> Your only option is a full backup and restore of the file system; with a
> reformat step in the middle.
> You could allways run Linux on the Mac but i'm sure that's not the 
> solution
> you're after.
>
> Note that fat32 has a 2gb filesize limit; this has bitten many people 
> trying
> to image a dvd with Nero.
>
> Whilst you can convert fat32 to ntfs, Microsoft wrote both file systems so
> they know how to do that. Reiserfs uses complex tree structures that cover
> the whole disk surface so an in place convertion would be complex to say 
> the
> least.
> Regards, Kerry.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Matheny"<starnoble at gmail.com>
> To:<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 7:33 PM
> Subject: Need help converting ReiserFs to HFS or Fat32
>
>
> Does anyone know a way to convert from ReiserFS to Fat32 or HFS? I'm
> in the process of migrating data from harddrives that are in ReiserFS
> format and I'm wanting to get it to a mac or Windows readible format.
> Anyone have any ideas or suggestions how I can do this?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> jerry
>
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