Re: ext3 w/Woody 3.0r0?

[Jerome Acks Jr <jracksjr@bellatlantic.net>]

On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 08:47:22PM -0700, Rob Leachman wrote:
> Just wanted to check before I do something wrong... does Woody 3.0r0 
> support ext3? I'm told to worry about kernel support, is it in the 
> distributed "2.2.20-compact #1" kernel?
> 
> Also, while I'm asking these simple questions, I understand the way 
> to upgrade to ext3 is simply:
> 
> 1) Add ext3 journalling to the ext2 device with `tune2fs -j /dev/{myHD}`
> 2) Adjust /etc/fstab as required to indicate type "ext3" not "ext2"
> 
> ...is it?

see
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html#s-ext3


> 
> Finally, why doesn't Woody prompt for ext3 like the other 
> distributions? I was reminded most others stop and ask ext2 or 
> ext3... maybe it's about the "compact" method I used.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 

-- 
Jerome

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