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configuring ext3 (was Re: new twist on shutting down and restricting ssh users)



On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:27:11PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
| On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:47:54PM -0500, dman wrote:
| > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:46:41PM +0000, Simon Hepburn wrote:
| > | On Wednesday 06 Mar 2002 9:11 pm, dman wrote:
| > | 
| > | > I want to allow my dad to shut down the router/gateway. 
| > | 
| > | Install ext3fs. Show him the power switch  ;-)  
| > 
| > :-).  I was thinking that a journaled fs would be a really good idea,
| > but I don't want to change it just hours before I leave in case there
| > is some issue with it.  ("some issue" mainly being PEBKAC
| > misconfiguration somewhere, but if I'm not around to fix it ...)
| 
| ext3 is probably a good idea if you aren't going to be around in case
| there is a power outage or someone trips over the power cord.  I use
| etx3 on all my boxes running 2.4.17 and haven't (yet) experienced any
| problems (now I wait for all the replies saying "ext3 is B0rken on
| 2.4.17!!1!" :)

I've got 2.4.17 on all my systems.  (2.4.18 is out now, but not
packaged last I checked)  Are there any tricks or gotchas to setting
it up?  Here's what I know (I did include support in the kernel) :
    o   /etc/fstab -- s/ext2/ext3/
    o   make the journal file (using 'tunefs'?)

The only thing I'm concerned about is trying to set up a new feature,
but not setting it up correctly and not being around to fix the setup.

TIA,
-D

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