ext2 to ext3 conversion

[William Hubbs]

Hi Raul,

Thanks a lot.

William

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:18:17AM -0600, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
> It's pretty easy to up from ext2 to ext3.  First off you have to make
> sure your kernel has ext3 compiled in.  That will be under the file
> system section.  You don't actually have to have it however by having
> the support from the kernel you get journaling which is real nice.  If
> that is not the case do that first, reboot and then
> read this cut from the speakup archives in December.
> migrating to ext3, was Re: rebuilding kernel
> Adam Myrow Sun, 16 Dec 2001 15:44:48 -0600 (CST)
> 
> Assuming your EXT2 partition is on /dev/hda2, it's easy to convert.
> Just
> type (as root, of course) "tune2fs -j /dev/hda2."  You need to have a
> reasonably recent version of tune2fs to do this, but Slackware 8 has one
> that is recent enough.  I personally haven't noticed any great
> difference
> with EXT3 over EXT2, but I seldom have a serious crash which is where
> EXT3
> is supposed to really shine.
> 
> 
> 
> William Hubbs said the following on Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:13:44AM -0600:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am running debian, and I would like to convert my file systems
> > to ext3.
> > 
> > Can someone point me to a document that explains how to do this or
> > explain how it is done?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > William
> > 
> > 
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