Re: Ext3 fs

[jason@openinformatics.com (Jason E. Stewart)]

Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net> writes:

> I recently installed (from official CD set) DebPPC3.0(Woody) on
> 800Mhz iMac 17" LCD. When it came time to install/format the
> filesystem I was only given the option of ext2, which surprised me,
> since ext3 has been available for some time. Did I miss something?
> (I know that you add a -j to the format command if working from the
> command line; but I was not at the command line, I was simply
> responding to the installer's prompts.) Will I be able to reformat
> my Deb install to ext3 later?  Thanks.  --Harvey

Yes, all you need to do is rune 'tune2fs -j /dev/hdaN' to add
journalling to an existing partition. Then you simply change the entry
in /etc/fstab to be ext3. No repartitioning needed.

Cheers,
jas.