migrating to ext3, was Re: rebuilding kernel

[Gregory Nowak]

Thanks, very cute.
Does anyone out there know the name of this conversion tool, and where it
could be downloaded from?

Also, I have seen several references to journaling in various docs.
Please forgive my ignorence, but what is journaling in the
filesystem sense of course?
Greg


On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:24:53AM +1100, Yvonne Smith wrote:
> Ok, as someone who hasn't yet converted to ext3, but will as soon as I
> upgrade the kernel, there's a couple of things to realise. Firstly, as
> far as I know, an ext3 drive can be mounted, even if you don't have
> ext3 support in your kernel. You won't get journalling, but other than
> that, it'll work just like an ext2 drive.
> 
> As for the conversion, I don't know what the programm's called, but
> you can convert ext2 partitions to ext3 in place, without touching the
> data. That's the main reason, as far as I can see, to use ext3 over
> reiser or any of the others, particularly if you don't have anywhere
> else to copy the data before converting the drive.
> 
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