ext2->ext3

[Matt Graham]

After a long battle with technology, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> I would like to copy my home partition from my old box that is formatted
> as ext2 to a new box that will be ext3. Should I expect any problems?

I would say no, so long as you mount both filesystems and cp -a the stuff from 
one to the other.  Beware of mismatched /etc/passwd files though, or the 
files might get their UID/GIDs mangled.

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