On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 04:30:26AM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 21:58, ZephyrQ wrote: > > I've been wondering, is the switch to ext3 going to cause many > > problems? I don't have a lot of time to fix problems right now... > > > tune2fs -J <partition> takes next to no time to run, and with the next > restart is ready to go (remember to switch /etc/fstab to mount the > partition as ext3 rather than ext2) and runs automatically in place of a > full fsck following a bad shutoff/crash. The system will still run fsck > periodically, but that will hopefully sync up with a proper shutdown, > and thus run very quickly - under five minutes rather than over 20 for > the entirety of the system. Beware, though, that if your UPS goes P'DOING in between the tune2fs -J and the clean shutdown, then you might have a problem. I'd recommend backing up first. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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