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Re: botched ext3 conversion



John Griffiths wrote:

> Whoops,
> 
> missed a step converting a box to ext3
> 
> procedure i was using was:
> 
> 1) #tune2fs -j /dev/hda*
> 
> for all ext2 file systems.
> 
> 2) edit /etc/fstab to change all references from ext2 to auto
> 
> 3) #touch/forcefsck
> 
> 4) reboot
> 
> only i forgot step 2 
> 
> it rebooted fine and #cat /proc/mounts shows the / file ssystem as ext 2
> and the others as ext2
> 
> i was thinking of just re-runnign the procedure and rebooting.
> 
> is there any danger in this?

You don't need to redo the tune2fs -j commands. You already have journals;
they're just not being used yet. Just edit /etc/fstab and reboot.

I don't know why you're doing the touch/forcefsck. I don't think it's
necessary.

Craig

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