Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.45.5-2 Idea: make a new file /usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/Year2038warnings that would say:
If you get ext4 filesystem being mounted at ... supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) warnings, here is what to do. As there is no way to simply "tune" the old filesystem, we must copy the files to a new filesystem, and then make the UUID numbers the same (for those people who mention them in their fstabs and don't want to have to change them on each machine they use.) # mke2fs.ext4 /dev/somewhere # mount /mnt /dev/somewhere # cp -a /old/filesystem /mnt # umount /old/filesystem # [then some commands that makes the UUID numbers etc. disk label, on the new filesystem # just like the ones on the old filesystem, so we don't have to change # our fstabs etc.] # [then some command that changes the UUID number etc. of the old filesystem, # so it doesn't conflict with the new filesystem. For the weeks we still # will keep it around just in case.]
