ext2 to ext3

[Joseph C. Lininger]

Alex,
An ext3 filesystem is simply an ext2 filesystem with a journal. Therefore, if you use tune2fs to add a journal to the filesystem, this will effectively convert the filesystem to ext3. All you have to do to do this is to issue this command as root.

tune2fs -j <device>

Replace <device> with the device the filesystem resides on. Make sure you unmount the filesystem before doing this. Backing it up is not necessary however, as this does not destroy any data on the filesystem.

Note that if this is an automatically mounted filesystem, you will need to change ext2 to ext3 in your fstab file in order to make use of the new journaling capabilities. If it is not, simply make sure that the filesystem is being mounted with type ext3 when you mount it.

-- 
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Kenny Hitt wrote:

> Simple, go read the ext3 howto.
>
>           Kenny
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 07:26:04PM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > The drive my ftp server is storing it's files on is currently formatted
> > in ext2.  How can I convert to ext3?
> >
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