ext2 to ext3 conversion

[Gregory Nowak]

If I'm not mistaken, tune2fs should come standard with every distro. Try 
"man tune2fs"
to get the scoop on it.
Greg


On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 07:39:15PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> 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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> > > -- 
> > > If you are good, you will be assigned all the work.  If you are real
> > > good, you will get out of it.
> > > Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net
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