On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 06:11:27PM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote: | On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 18:01, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: | > Hi | > I have just a simple newbee question about ext3. I have an old IBM box that | > I am running woody on a 2.2.20 kernel. | > I have just apt installed kernel-patch-ext3-2.2 wich is compatible with my | > kernel. I am just wondering about the right syntax for converting ext2 | > to -3. | > Is the syntax as simple as I think? | > tune2fs -j /dev/hdd3 or | > tune2fs -J /dev/hdd3? | > | > or somthing else? And then of course I need to edit fstab. | | The first one is right. | | And it really is as simple as running tune2fs and remounting.
Yep. The only "problem" I ran into is the details of remounting. The '-o remount' option can't change the fs type. You actually have to unmount then mount the partition. When / and /home are converted, this means a reboot :-(. Otherwise it's great. (don't forget to edit fstab to specify ext3 instead of ext2) -D -- A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24 GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
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