On Sep 15, Paul Evans wrote
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> Just a Thought:
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> Would it be a valid function of fsck (or mkfs) to actually swap the bytes in a filesystem on a disk?  To change the native host from big to little and vice-versa?
> 
> I was specifically thinking of creating installation disks  from  remote machines of a different endianess. As well as moving disks from dead computers for re-use..

This can be done. Should be easy as fsck will read all the fs metadatas.
But note that this won't convert the disklabel, and this is a much harder work
as disklabels changes from a port to another.

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