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Re: ext2 ext3 ?



On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 04:36:43PM -0500, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:24:49 +0000 Gerard Robin <robin.jag@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:03:16AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> >
> > > Besides the tune2fs command you need to update /etc/fstab and change
> > > ext2 to ext3 at the appropriate places. If you are using the stock
> > > 2.4.18 that should be all, but verify with 'cat /proc/mounts' that you
> > > really do have ext3.
> >
> > /dev/hdb3	/		ext2	defaults,errors=remount-ro	0	1
> > /dev/hdb1 	/boot 		ext2 rw				0	2
> >  
> > there is not ext3 ?
> (snip)
> > but perhaps I have to recompile the kernel whith CONFIG_EXT3-FS=y ?
> 
> Nope, just need to change the above two "ext2" entries in your fstab to
> ext3 and ensure that you've created the journal for both of them (as the
> previous poster indicated) with:

What about the fs_passno? (the last entry that determines how often to
run fsck)  Does this need to be set to 0 for an ext3 system, or does it
matter?  Or do you still want to periodically fsck the ext3 filesystem,
too?

> - tune2fs -j /dev/hdb3
> - tune2fs -j /dev/hdb1



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