on Sun, Apr 14, 2002, Lars Jensen (jensen@scsr.nevada.edu) wrote:
> My woody system has the pre-compiled debian kernel-image 2.4.17-k7.
> Is support for ext3 compiled into this kernel?
$ ls /lib/modules/<kernel>/kernel/fs/ext3.o
...if it's modular, else:
$ grep ext3 /proc/filesystems
...if it's built-in (or the module's already loaded).
> If so, is it correct that all I do to upgrad is,
>
> tune2fs -j /dev/...
Yep.
> and replace ext2 in /ect/fstab by ext3 ?
Or:
<dev> <mountpoint> ext3,ext2 <options> <dump> <pass>
...where the "ext3,ext2" will allow mounting as either option, in that
order. You can mount your partitions under an old kernel, needs be.
Peace.
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