Re: ext3 not recognized?

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@dmcom.net>]

Andrew Agno(agno@AI.SRI.COM) is reported to have said:
> I'm having a problem with recent installs of Debian.  My install
> process goes like this:
> 
> Install a base potato dist.
> Upgrade to testing.
> 
> After doing this, I change the root partition to ext3, and install a
> 2.4 kernel (2.4.17). 
Please describe what you did to "change the root partition to ext3"
Did you make the filesystems/ext3 option a module or installed in the
kernel?  It can't be a module!


Rather then pick apart your procedures here is what I did to change all
partitions to ext3.

Install kernel-2.4.17, make oldconfig, save, make menuconfig and select 
filesystems/ext3 with 'y'.  Compiled the kernel & modules, installed 
bzImage into /boot and changed lilo.conf to agree.  Rebooted the system.

did->   tune2fs -j /dev/hda?  for each partition
did->   tune2fs -i 0 /dev/hda? again for each partition

Edited /etc/fstab and changed all references of ext2 to either ext3 or
auto.  rebooted again.

The 2 reboots may have been overkill but I screwed up on another box
and had a dickins of a time fixing it.  The above prevented any screw
up on my part on the next box.

:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)

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