Ok I followed your instructions and I saw the journals being created on 
my partitions but when I power cycle the box its still running fcsk. 
There's no change it keeps running fcsk each time I cycle the box. Any 
ideas? Thanks.


On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 09:37 AM, Dave Sherman wrote:

> On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 04:39, NDPTAL85 wrote:
>> I have a standard install of Mandrake 8.1 and I have upgraded the 
>> kernel
>> to the latest Cooker kernel 2.4.13-12mdk. I was wondering how can I
>> upgrade my filesystem to ext3 from ext2? Anyone have some sites that
>> show you how to do this? Anything Mandrake specific perhaps? Thanks.
>
> You're in luck! I just did this yesterday morning, and it was a piece of
> cake.
>
> 1. Make sure you have tune2fs installed. It is probably /sbin/tune2fs,
> and so won't be in your path as a user, but will be as root.
>
> 2. Unmount any unused partitions (nfs or samba mount points, windows
> partitions if you dual-boot).
>
> 3. Run this command as root:
>       tune2fs -j /dev/hdxx
> where hdxx is the device name for your hard drive partitions (hda1,
> hda5, etc.). You need to run this for each partition you want to convert
> -- you do not need to do this on your swap partition, only on your ext2
> partitions.
>
> 4. Edit /etc/fstab, and change all instances of ext2 to ext3.
>
> Dave
> --
> Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money
> bags.
>               -- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"
>


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