Re: ext3 to ext2

2003-09-01 Thread Simon Tischer
On Sunday 31 August 2003 18:31, HoytDuff wrote: On Sunday 31 August 2003 04:01 am, Andre Speelmans wrote: i want to convert my ext3 / and /home partition to an ext2 filesystem, that i can move it with partition magic, how can i do that? tune2fs -O ^has_journal Doesn't Partition Magic

Re: ext3 to ext2

2003-08-31 Thread HoytDuff
On Sunday 31 August 2003 04:01 am, Andre Speelmans wrote: i want to convert my ext3 / and /home partition to an ext2 filesystem, that i can move it with partition magic, how can i do that? tune2fs -O ^has_journal Doesn't Partition Magic detect it as an ext2 partition anyway? -- Hoyt --

Re: ext3 to ext2

2003-08-31 Thread Andre Speelmans
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Simon Tischer wrote: i want to convert my ext3 / and /home partition to an ext2 filesystem, that i can move it with partition magic, how can i do that? tune2fs -O ^has_journal -- Regards, Andre -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ext3 to ext2

2003-08-29 Thread Edward Dekkers
. -Original Message- From: Marcos de Souza Trazzini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 7:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ext3 to ext2 On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 09:26, Simon Tischer wrote: hi i want to convert my ext3 / and /home partition to an ext2 filesystem

ext3 to ext2

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Tischer
hi i want to convert my ext3 / and /home partition to an ext2 filesystem, that i can move it with partition magic, how can i do that? thx for help -- --- Simon -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ext3 to ext2

2003-08-28 Thread Marcos de Souza Trazzini
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 09:26, Simon Tischer wrote: hi i want to convert my ext3 / and /home partition to an ext2 filesystem, that i can move it with partition magic, how can i do that? thx for help -- --- Simon Just change the ext3 flag in /etc/fstab file

RE: ext3 to ext2

2003-08-28 Thread Go, Jeffrey
I believe you can also run the tune2fs command... -Original Message- From: Marcos de Souza Trazzini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 7:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ext3 to ext2 On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 09:26, Simon Tischer wrote: hi i want

Re: ext3 to ext2

2003-03-07 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:28:37AM +1100, Darryl Harvey wrote: I have found that if you edit the entries in /etc/fstab and change from ext3 to ext2, two things are still apparent. 1/. The journal file still resides on each partition. 2/. The journal module is still loaded and running So

ext3 to ext2

2003-03-06 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
Is it possible to go from ext3 to ext2? Or, better yet, I installed 7.2 and converted to ext3 however the kernel does not support ext3. How can I get back into the linux box to rebuild a kernel? I don't have a boot disk or kernel disk handy. -- Michael S. Dunsavage -- redhat-list mailing

Re: ext3 to ext2

2003-03-06 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:44:25AM -0500, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: Is it possible to go from ext3 to ext2? Or, better yet, I installed 7.2 and converted to ext3 however the kernel does not support ext3. How can I get back into the linux box to rebuild a kernel? Hi Mike, One of my

Re: ext3 to ext2

2003-03-06 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
Haha. I never would have thought of something so easy. Thank you for your help. -- Michael S. Dunsavage - Original Message - From: Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:20 AM Subject: Re: ext3 to ext2 On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:44:25AM

Re: ext3 to ext2

2003-03-06 Thread Richie Crews
It is easy, ext3 is ext2 filesystem with a journal. Complete backwards compatiblity. On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:59, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: Haha. I never would have thought of something so easy. Thank you for your help. -- Michael S. Dunsavage - Original Message - From: Jeff

Re: ext3 to ext2

2003-03-06 Thread Edward Dekkers
But if you want your ext3 filesystems to be used as ext2 filesystems you don't have to change the kernel. Just modify your /etc/fstab file and set the file system type to ext2. I know you need to run tune2fs to set from ext2 to ext3. Quick question: You don't need to run tune2fs to set ext3

RE: ext3 to ext2

2003-03-06 Thread Darryl Harvey
I have found that if you edit the entries in /etc/fstab and change from ext3 to ext2, two things are still apparent. 1/. The journal file still resides on each partition. 2/. The journal module is still loaded and running So maybe tune2fs will stop these from occurring ?? Dunno... IE: Taken

Re: ext3 to ext2

2003-03-06 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:44:25AM -0500, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: Is it possible to go from ext3 to ext2? Or, better yet, I installed 7.2 and converted to ext3 however the kernel does not support ext3. How can I get back into the linux box to rebuild a kernel? I don't understand

Re: Migrating from ext3 to ext2

2002-10-18 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Pl help me in changing the Filesystem type from ext3 to ext2 as ext3 is using a lot of machine resources for the journelling. I m using red hat linux 7.2 . just change your entry (ext3-ext2) in the /etc/fstab umount /mntpoint mount /mntpoint -b- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Migrating from ext3 to ext2

2002-10-16 Thread Ramesh Pathak
Pl help me in changing the Filesystem type from ext3 to ext2 as ext3 is using a lot of machine resources for the journelling. I m using red hat linux 7.2 . Regds, RCP -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman

Re: Migrating from ext3 to ext2

2002-10-16 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 06:59, Ramesh Pathak wrote: Pl help me in changing the Filesystem type from ext3 to ext2 as ext3 is using a lot of machine resources for the journelling. I m using red hat linux 7.2 . I believe that you can simply change the entries in /etc/fstab from ext3 to ext2

Re: Sorry :converting ext3 to ext2 on the root partion

2002-10-16 Thread Nagib Abi Fadel
"Robert P. J. Day" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Juan Martinez wrote: Change /etc/fstab, reboot and remove the journal. You could also change /etc/fstab, remount / and remove the journal.since this is the root filesystem, you can't "remount" -- as in,use mount with the "-o

Sorry :converting ext3 to ext2 on the root partion

2002-10-15 Thread Nagib Abi Fadel
I'm converting back my redhat 7.3 to ext2. I converted all my partitions, but didn't succeed to convert the / partition any ideas !!!Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos, & more faith.yahoo.com

Re: Sorry :converting ext3 to ext2 on the root partion

2002-10-15 Thread Juan Martinez
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sorry :converting ext3 to ext2 on the root partion I'm converting back my redhat 7.3 to ext2. I converted all my partitions, but didn't succeed to convert the / partition any ideas !!! - Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive

Re: Sorry :converting ext3 to ext2 on the root partion

2002-10-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Juan Martinez wrote: Change /etc/fstab, reboot and remove the journal. You could also change /etc/fstab, remount / and remove the journal. since this is the root filesystem, you can't remount -- as in, use mount with the -o remount option -- to do this, as the remount

Re: ext3 or ext2 ?

2002-04-09 Thread Michael Squires
I'm not complaining here, but I have noticed a performance lag while using ext3. I have two hard drives, both Western Digital. One is used as my system drive (40G, 7200rpm, ext3) the other is used for storing archives (60G, 5400rpm, ext2). When I run hdparm -t /dev/hda(40G), I get average results

Re: ext3 or ext2 ?

2002-04-09 Thread jbinpg
Yes, ext2 and ext3 continue to improve. Check the latest kernel mailing list summaries and you will se an important fix just went in that increases file access some 5 to 50x depending on operation. jb - Original Message - From: Michael Squires [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, April 9

Re: ext3 or ext2 ?

2002-01-03 Thread Adam Haupt
You wont regret it. Dominic Mitchell wrote: Thanks all for your advices, I have chosen to give a try at ext3. Anyway, this machine could fail without being a major pain. If it does not, well all the better. Cheers, Dominic. ___

ext3 or ext2 ?

2002-01-02 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Hi, Which of ext2 or ext3 should I format the partition of a new install of RH7.2. I seem to remember people saying that ext3 was more robust to an unclean unmounting of partitions? Are there good reasons for not using ext3? For now this machine won't be my main machine. With proper

Re: ext3 or ext2 ?

2002-01-02 Thread Janyne Kizer
Dominic Mitchell wrote: Hi, Which of ext2 or ext3 should I format the partition of a new install of RH7.2. I seem to remember people saying that ext3 was more robust to an unclean unmounting of partitions? Right. ext3 uses journaling Are there good reasons for not using ext3

Re: ext3 or ext2 ?

2002-01-02 Thread Adam Haupt
Ive been running Ext3 since the Redhat BETA(now with enigma), with absolutely no problems whatsoever. Ive purposely shut the PC down with everything running, and it boots up perfect everytime. Adam Dominic Mitchell wrote: Hi, Which of ext2 or ext3 should I format the partition

Re: ext3 or ext2 ?

2002-01-02 Thread Statux
Are there good reasons for not using ext3? For now this machine won't be my main machine. With proper backup of important files it could fail without being a major pain ... Despite the fact that people say that ext3 is good enough for production use, you can't ignore the dozens and dozens

Re: ext3 or ext2 ?

2002-01-02 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:55:42PM -0500, Statux wrote: Despite the fact that people say that ext3 is good enough for production use, you can't ignore the dozens and dozens of complaints people make about it constantly. In all honesty, ext3 is still under development as are most journalling

Re: ext3 or ext2 ?

2002-01-02 Thread Jared Brick
Despite the fact that people say that ext3 is good enough for production use, you can't ignore the dozens and dozens of complaints people make about it constantly. In all honesty, ext3 is still under development as are most journalling filesystems. I wouldn't use it, say, for the root

Re: ext3 or ext2 ?

2002-01-02 Thread Hidong Kim
I upgraded our NIS network to Red Hat 7.2 with ext3 about a week ago. No problems so far. After I installed it on my machine, I cycled the power switch a few times just to get tweaked on watching a 35 GB system boot up in about 30 seconds. Jared Brick wrote: Despite the fact that people

Re: ext3 or ext2 ?

2002-01-02 Thread Michael Squires
I'm not complaining here, but I have noticed a performance lag while using ext3. I have two hard drives, both Western Digital. One is used as my system drive (40G, 7200rpm, ext3) the other is used for storing archives (60G, 5400rpm, ext2). When I run hdparm -t /dev/hda(40G), I get average results

RE: ext3 or ext2 ?

2002-01-02 Thread Pieter De Wit
Hello Dominic, About the problems that people have had with ext3, I havn't had any. Here is my system spec : Pentuim 2 366 256 Meg RAM 2 x Ultra2 18 gig SCSI 1 x 10 gig IDE 1 x 20 gig IDE I run all my partions on ext3 and there is a 45 gig volume spanned accross the drives. My server (internal

Re: ext3 or ext2 ?

2002-01-02 Thread Brian Ashe
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 05:47, you babbled something about: I'm not complaining here, but I have noticed a performance lag while using ext3. I have two hard drives, both Western Digital. One is used as my system drive (40G, 7200rpm, ext3) the other is used for storing archives (60G,

Re: ext3 or ext2 ?

2002-01-02 Thread ABrady
to ext2, it comes back every time I go to ext3. It didn't matter if the parition was an ext2 to ext3 upgrade or was formatted and installed ext3. It didn't matter if it was on /var (usual rom default) or /usr or anyplace else. It didn't matter the browser, what desktop, whether a desktop was in use

Re: ext3 or ext2 ?

2002-01-02 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Thanks all for your advices, I have chosen to give a try at ext3. Anyway, this machine could fail without being a major pain. If it does not, well all the better. Cheers, Dominic. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

recompile kernel - both ext3 and ext2 support?

2001-11-13 Thread BobH
Hi, I am recompiling 2.4.9-13 for NAT learning and experimentation. When I installed RH 7.2 I chose the ext3 file system. Now when recompiling I have choosen ext3 file support. Is there any reason to also incluce ext2 file support. I know this seems like a stupid question, but the simplest

Re: recompile kernel - both ext3 and ext2 support?

2001-11-13 Thread ABrady
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:01 pm, you wrote: Hi, I am recompiling 2.4.9-13 for NAT learning and experimentation. When I installed RH 7.2 I chose the ext3 file system. Now when recompiling I have choosen ext3 file support. Is there any reason to also incluce ext2 file support. I