On Saturday 19 January 2002 9:40 am, Ken Moffat wrote: > 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.
I did all of the above and it worked just fine. Kernel=2.4.16 -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 01/19/02 10:38 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it." _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
