I have checked the relevant entry in "man tune2fs" and, given my limited expertise, I considered it prudent to seek additional guidance.
The relevant paragraphs read: ,----[ man_page.txt ]- | -j Add an ext3 journal to the filesystem. If the -J option is not | specified, the default journal parameters will be used to create | an appropriately sized journal (given the size of the filesys- | tem) stored within the filesystem. Note that you must be using | a kernel which has ext3 support in order to actually make use of | the journal. | | SNIP | | On some distributions, such as Debian, if an initial ramdisk is | used, the initrd scripts will automatically convert an ext2 root | filesystem to ext3 if the /etc/fstab file specifies the ext3 | filesystem for the root filesystem in order to avoid requiring | the use of a rescue floppy to add an ext3 journal to the root | filesystem. | `---- The second paragraph suggests that this should have happened automatically when I updated my (very aged) Woody to Debian 3.1r1 (the installed kernel image is now "kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386") and changed the entry in /etc/fstab. This does not appear to be the case. One of the messages displayed when booting the updated setup reads "ext3: No journal on filesystem on hda6 ". /dev/hda6 is the partition that was updated. What have I missed? Felix Karpfen -- Felix Karpfen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]