Bernard Varaine wrote: Well, yes, sort of. It is in fact mentioned in this very thread by Han, back toward the beginning. Good overviews may be found here: http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca/article.php?sid=324 and here: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1634&lang=en As for partition resizing, I have heard that there are tools around, but I'm not sure I would really trust any of them with my data, including PM. If you back up first or do it with a non essential system it can probably work, but beware, things can go wrong.
- George > on this subjects is there any tool to chnage a partition from ext2 to > ext3 without losing the data on it. > and may be to chnage partition size also (like partition magic) > > Bernard > > George Mitchell wrote: > >> Brian J. Murrell wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:30:49PM +0100, Danny Tholen wrote: >>> >>>> I wonder how *safe* ext3 is. >>>> >>> >>> I wouldn't fall 10 stories on to it and hope to live. >>> >>>> I accidently filled up my /usr partition, and 10 min later >>>> 'ls' gave segfaults. >>>> >>> >>> Yeah. >>> >>>> The file turned out to be corrupted.... >>>> >>> >>> Which file? ls? How did you determine it was corrupted? >>> >>>> No idea if this is related, or even caused by ext3...but suspicious >>>> nontheless. Anyone else >>>> problems with filesystem when partitions full? >>>> >>> >>> Uhm, yeah. Lots of problems when filesystems fill up. :-) Don't >>> fill up filesystems! :-) Use LVM -- although even LVM can't "create" >>> diskspace that is just not there. :-) >>> >>> b. >>> >>> >> Oh, and remember ext3 is just ext2 with a journal and a refined >> recovery routine. Whenever a file system gets full, anything left >> sitting in memory is playing musical chairs with whatever little >> space is left. And the end result usually has little to do with the >> specific file system type. My personal experience with ext3 (I used >> reiserfs prior to 8.1) is that it is solid as a rock. My machine >> hangs up on USB unload consistantly, and I have NEVER had a problem >> on reboot. I am using a combination of ext3 and reiserfs for 100% >> journaling. I LIKE IT! >> >> >> >> >> >
