[newbie] How to upgrade to ext3?
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. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How to upgrade to ext3?
hmmm, I thought you just had to mount them as ext3 to get the journal started... and I know you can just change that back to ext2 to read them that way, so try editing fstab, and change all ext2 references (except maybe boot) to ext3. then restart. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of NDPTAL85 Sent: Friday, 30 November 2001 6:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] How to upgrade to ext3? 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. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to upgrade to ext3?
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to upgrade to ext3?
Ok got it working. Someone gave me a tip. You also have to have the latest e2fsprogs installed so I just ran urpmi e2fsprogs to install it and ext3 worked! Thanks again. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to upgrade to ext3?
On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 14:30, civileme wrote: Hmmm, well it seems you did the partition thing the hard way. If you open a terminal, su to root and run diskdrake You can change the partitions from ext2 to ext3 in place and it also changes the /etc/fstab entries so they say ext3 as well. I actually thought of that idea, but did not pursue it as I assumed that making such a change would also reformat the partition. Dave -- Never trust a child farther than you can throw it. msg83097/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
