RE:Conversion to ext3

2002-04-15 Thread Andrew Agno
Andrew Agno writes: > % tune2fs -l /path/to/device | egrep has_journal Just to have a record of this in the archives (sorry for getting this info twice, Mark), debugfs does this handily, plus lots of other stuff: % debugfs debugfs: open /path/to/device debugfs: features Filesystem features: has_

RE:Conversion to ext3

2002-04-15 Thread Andrew Agno
Mark Carroll writes: > Great, thanks! Everything has converted nicely, apparently. (-: (Well, at > least 'mount' reports everything is now ext3!) Unfortunately, mount sometimes lies to you. To make sure you have journaling, use: % tune2fs -l /path/to/device | egrep has_journal The argument is

RE:Conversion to ext3

2002-04-15 Thread Mark Carroll
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Andrew Agno wrote: (snip) > Yes to your last question. Just get a rescue disk/CD, boot from it, > make sure your device is unmounted, and run: > > % tune2fs -j /path/to/device (snip) Great, thanks! Everything has converted nicely, apparently. (-: (Well, at least 'mount' repor

RE:Conversion to ext3

2002-04-15 Thread Andrew Agno
Mark Carroll writes: > introducing lots of .journal files? Can I make a bootdisk or something > that can convert what's normally my root partition? It looks like, if the > FS is mounted, you get .journal files. Yes to your last question. Just get a rescue disk/CD, boot from it, make sure your