Re: File systems -- reiser vs. ext3

[Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

* Daniel B. (dsb@smart.net) [030218 21:25]:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> > ...
> > My pick of ext3 was the fact that all the tools that work with ext2
> > work just as readily with ext3.  I was also able to convert within a
> > few minutes from ext2 on the command line.
> 
> What do you use to convert?

If you've got the right software, i.e. a kernel that supports ext3,
up-to-date util-linux package (see this page,
http://www.zip.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html, for full info), etc,
etc, all it takes is

tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX 


Regards
Hall