Today at 5:51pm, Spencer Ogden expounded: ++ So I decided to take an old partition, delte all of its files and make it an ++ ext3 partition. Is there something I am missing? I earsed everything then did ++ a `mkfs -t ext [thedevice]`. When I try to mount this partition it says it is ++ already mounted, and can't be mounted again or the directory I am mounting to ++ is busy. Now the directyor is brand new and empty, and the partition isn't ++ listed when I do `mount`, what gives?
First, see http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html ext2 and ext3 are compatible with each other. Meaning that you don't have to make a completely new filesystem if you want to switch between them. (You can keep all of your files.) To convert an ext2 paritition to an ext3 partition, just run ``tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX''. Then fix fstab. You don't delete all the files in a partition to change the filesystem. You just unmount it and format it. Is /etc/mtab on this partition? This could be why mount is giving you the wrong result. You can also cat /proc/mounts. -Paul -- http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~sack || [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do something unusual today. Pay a bill. _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
