Hi, On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:18:58AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Let me see if I have this straight: > > 1. Red Hat 7.2 uses ext3 as its default filesystem for new installations. > (Do they also offer to convert ext2 --> ext3 when upgrading?) Both ext2 and ext3 are offered for install, and conversion is possible for upgrades. > 2. Red Hat 7.2's standard vendor-supplied kernel images have ext3 as a > module, and no initrd (or the initrd does not include ext3). The initrd is built on demand. There's *much* more than ext3 which may be necessary --- you may have to include soft raid modules, scsi modules and so on in the initrd. If you change your boot environment --- by moving the root filesystem from ide to scsi, or by moving it onto software raid, or by changing it to ext3 --- you need to rerun the mkinitrd to pick up the new modules, but mkinitrd *will* work out the correct modules automatically if you run it. Cheers, Stephen
