>From a previous post about changing from ext2 to ext3:
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You could use tune2fs -j in the %post section.
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Florian Festi
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Paul
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Paul Fernandes
Sr. System Administrator
LION bioscience Research, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steven Timm
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 9:20 AM
To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Migrating ext2 to ext3 partitions in KS
Hi everyone.
I have a bunch of systems currently running Redhat 7.1.
They are currently partitioned as follows:
/ /dev/hda1 (3 Gb)
Extended partition /dev/hda2
swap /dev/hda5 (2 Gb)
/inst /dev/hda6 (rest of disk)
/local/stage1 /dev/hdb1 (all disk)
/local/stage2 /dev/hdd1 (all disk)
What I want to do is:
1) wipe out the three partitions on the system disk and install
7.3.
2) Migrate the file systems on hdb1 and hdd1, which are currently
ext2, to ext3, while saving the data.
Both of these can easily be done when doing a manual install.
If you look at the anaconda-ks.cfg file that's made when you do that,
you get the following: (with a comment that it's not guaranteed to work)
part / --fstype ext3 --size 3000 --ondisk hda
part swap --size 2000 --ondisk hda
part /inst --size 1000 --grow --ondisk hda
part /local/stage1 --fstype ext3 --noformat --onpart hdb1
part /local/stage2 --fstype ext3 --noformat --onpart hdd1
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The three partitions I requested above for hda, under a clean 7.3 install
with nothing else on the machine, would all be allocated as
primary partitions.
If I try to run a kickstart with the above, preceded by
the statement
clearpart --drives hda
I get the error message that it cannot allocate the partitions as
primary partitions.
If I take any clearpart statement out, and instead use the
old partitioning exactly as it is, e.g.
part / --fstype ext3 --onpart hda1
part swap --size 2000 --onpart hda5
part /inst --fstype ext3 --onpart hda6
part /local/stage1 --fstype ext3 --noformat --onpart hdb1
part /local/stage2 --fstype ext3 --noformat --onpart hdd1
then it works fine--except it doesn't migrate the
two disks that are not formatted to ext3...they stay ext2.
So two questions:
1) Is there a bug in the clearpart command? If we do
clearpart --drives hda, shouldn't we be able to put any partition
structure on there we want?
2) Is there any way to get the disks to migrate from ext2 to ext3
during kickstart?
Thanks for your help.
Steve Timm
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Steven C. Timm (630) 840-8525 timm@xxxxxxxx http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/
Fermilab Computing Division/Core Support Services Dept.
Assistant Group Leader, Scientific Computing Support Group
Lead of Computing Farms Team
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