Re: File systems -- reiser vs. ext3

[Jorge Santos <jsf@ciencias.unam.mx>]

Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com> writes:

> * 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 
> 
> 


You must also change the pertinent fields in fstab from ext2 to ext3.

And you may also want to change how often disk are checked (both in
terms of mounts and time).

Bye,

jsf