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Re: ext3 root partition with kernel-image packages



On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 10:49, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:54:10PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> > If you first made (mkfs) the file system and mounted it as ext2, then it's 
> > default type will be ext2.  Then if you have ext2 and ext3 modules loaded 
> > then it will be mounted as ext2.
> 
> I see. But AFAICT ext2 is compiled into the kernel and not as module, so
> I guess it will always be mounted as ext2, or did I get that wrong?
> 
> Is it possible to convert ext2 completely to ext3?

/sbin/tune2fs -J /dev/blah

Change type to ext3 in /etc/fstab

Enjoy.

Normally I'd charge a consulting fee, but I'll let you slide this time. 
~,^

> 
> Thanks for your script, but unfortunately it does not change anything,
> except of the size of the initrd image.
> 
> Michael
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