Thanks for good comment. On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:25:14AM -0500, David Roundy wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 02:17:00AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I did following to enable ext3 fs on my system. If there are better > > way, let me know. (kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp) > > > > # apt-get update; apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp > > ... > > # tune2fs -j -i 0 /dev/hda1 > > # tune2fs -j -i 0 /dev/hda2 # ... For all EXT2 FS which moves to EXT3 > > # cd /etc; mv fstab fstab.old > > # sed 's/ext2/ext3/g' <fstab.old >fstab > > I would make this > > # sed 's/ext2/ext3,ext2/g' <fstab.old >fstab
Good point :) Always nice to have safe fall back. > So that you can still mount the partitions as ext2 if ext3 isn't available > (e.g. using an older kernel or whatever). > > > # shutdown -r now > > ... reboot and, at prompt by initrd image, type RETURN > > # insmod jbd > > # insmod ext3 # depmod ext3 may take care all > > # insmod ext2 > > # ^D > > ... Now I get system on ext3 fs (/,...) > > Do you really need to reboot? It seems that you could just insmod ext3 and > then `mount -o remount` the relevant partitions. Good point again. But my answer is yes. See I am installing new kernel above. For this, I think my system needed to be rebooted. If one just needs to get ext3 functioning, there is no need to reboot. Cheers :) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ +
