[Gllug] FS conversion

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:30:15PM -0000, george.saxby wrote:
> Hi,
>  I'm running Mandy 7.2 with ext2 file system. Without destroying the data on the disk 
> can the file system be converted to ext3 & jounalling
>  If so how do you go about it?

It is normally as simple as unmounting, creating a journal on the volume
and then mounting it as ext3, having set the appropriate options in
/etc/fstab.

Make sure you have ext3 support as a module or compiled into the kernel.
The fsutils on Mandrake 7.2 is recent enough to deal with ext3, afaik.
You need tune2fs to create the journal (man tune2fs).

So

1.  Unmount
2.  Update the fstab entry to make it ext3 with your chosen options
3.  tune2fs -j /dev/whatever 
4.  Remount

-- 
Bruce

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