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Re: How to enable EXT3 FS on 2.4



On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:11:31AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com> wrote:
> > I did following to enable ext3 fs on my system.  If there are better
> > way, let me know.  (kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp)
> 
> > # apt-get update; apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp
> > ...
> > # tune2fs -j -i 0 /dev/hda1
> > # tune2fs -j -i 0 /dev/hda2 # ... For all EXT2 FS which moves to EXT3
> > # cd /etc; mv fstab fstab.old
> > # sed 's/ext2/ext3,ext2/g' <fstab.old >fstab  # forged to be better :)
> 
> mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.4.17-686-smp /lib/modules/2.4.17-686-smp
> lilo

It does not harm but kernel-image already comes with initrd image and it
runs lilo during "install".  Is there any specific reason why this
command needs to be run again?

Thanks anyway reminding this is needed for roll-your own kernel :)

Osamu



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