On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 20:03:38 +1130 Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:29, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > > > using tune2fs is the only way to convert existing partitions. > > simply unmount the partition, 'tune2fs -j /dev/xxx' > > and then edit /etc/fstab to say ext3 instead of ext2. remount the > > partition, good to go > > This might seem *really dumb* but how can you do this on your root (/) > partition, assuming tune2fs is on it? As in, what if you only have the 2 > 'standard' partitions of / and swap on your system? > I was wondering that, but this may answer it... (involves the 'r' word ... (reboot)) (from http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html) Converting ext2 filesystems An ext2 filesystem maybe converted to ext3 by creating a journal file on it. To do this, run tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX on the target filesystem (which may be mounted). The filesystem is now ext3 capable. This means that it can be mounted as type ext3. Now you can unmount/mount (after changing your /etc/fstab appropriately) to do this. To mount the root filesystem ext3, the easiest thing is probably to just reboot. -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
