OK.. I understand. And I appreciate your feedback. I will have to do it
manually at the site, rather than try something from 'afar'.
That could lead to troubles so I will wait until I can have someone at the
site and we should all be a lot happier.
Thanks again for your thoughts. They were appreciated.
At 09:50 AM 6/14/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> sorry, i couldn't reply directly to the earlier
>postings on ext{2,3} conversion, so i'm doing this
>thru webmail.
>
> from tests i've run, once you convert from one
>filesystem type to the other (using "tune2fs" in
>both cases), you obviously have to remount as
>the new type to have that change take effect.
>
> this causes a problem since, while the system
>is running, you can't just unmount and remount
>filesystems like /, /usr and so on. and using
>the "-o remount" option of the mount command will
>not work -- remounting is used primarily for changing mount flags, like RW
><-> RO -- you
>can't use the remount option to change the
>mount *type*.
>
> because of that, as i see it, you really have to
>reboot to change the mount types on all of the
>filesystems.
>
> comments?
>
>rday
>
>
>
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