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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
