Re: Ext3 fs
Interesting that you should mention this, Harvey, as I was just looking
through some ext3 documentation today. By far the best rundown on the
features and tweaks of ext3 is Andrew Morton's, at
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html
Furthermore, Daniel Robbins has a couple of articles on the filesystem at
IBM developerWorks -
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs7/ and
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs8/
Basically, ensure you have a ext3-capable kernel and current versions of
util-linux and e2fsprogs, then you can
tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX
which will non-destructively convert your ext2 filesystem to ext3
Edit your /etc/fstab and replace any instance of 'ext2' for the partition
you have tuned with 'ext3', reboot and you're away!
If you want to disable the periodic fsck of your ext3 partition, simply
tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hdxx
Hope that helps!
Chris
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