ext2 to ext3 conversion

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Raul. Where can you obtain tune2fs? Or does it come with Debian Potato? I'll look through the package lists but I don't think so. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: William Hubbs <kc5eiv at kc5eiv.ddts.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: ext2 to ext3 conversion


> 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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