Re: [CentOS] Re: What's the best way to convert a whole set of filesystems?

Mark Hull-Richter wrote:

I was thinking to copy each partition to the new /home one at a time, reformat the original (from NTFS to ext3) and then copy back. That makes sense to me except for the plain text files (which should be converted from dos to unix format), but I could do that afterwards.

It would probably be horrendously slow with cp - what would be a better way: tar, cpio, or dd, or something else?

I'd not expect cp to be significantly slower or faster than tar etc. dd just copys bytes, it does nothing to interpret them as a filesystem, so there's no way for dd to change the filesystem (but it can, for example, copy /dev/hda2 to ~/hda2.img where you can then mount them as filesystems and play with cp, tar and so on.