Re: Migrating to ext3

2001-11-09 Thread Lawrence Houston
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, it was written: > I have migrated some to ext3 without a problem. > it is pretty simple, since you already > have ext3 support in your kernel, right ? > if that is the case, this is what you need to do. > > 1. tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX > # what this does is makes a journal for

Re: Migrating to ext3

2001-11-09 Thread C. Linus Hicks
On 08 Nov 2001 23:49:09 -0800, Steve Lee wrote: > > 2. tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hdXX > # not sure if you need this, but this turns off > # checking of mount every 20 th mount or 180 days > # don't need it anymore with ext3 :)) It is not recommended that you disable checking. From the man pa

Re: Migrating to ext3

2001-11-09 Thread Bill Hartwell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 November 2001 12:49 am, Steve Lee wrote: > I have migrated some to ext3 without a problem. > it is pretty simple, since you already > have ext3 support in your kernel, right ? > if that is the case, this is what you need to do. That's

Re: Migrating to ext3

2001-11-08 Thread Steve Lee
I have migrated some to ext3 without a problem. it is pretty simple, since you already have ext3 support in your kernel, right ? if that is the case, this is what you need to do. 1. tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX # what this does is makes a journal for your ext2 2. tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hdXX # not

Migrating to ext3

2001-11-08 Thread Bill Hartwell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone had good luck migrating an in-use partition from ext2 to ext3? If so, how did you do it? What precautions did you need to take, and did you lose any data in the process? I'm asking because when I installed 7.2, I had my system partitions