Hoyt Bailey wrote:
Sounds like a plan. I'll try and I believe that ext3 is already installed. Hoyt
Look in /etc/fstab at your various mount points. If any of them say "ext3", those partitions are (presumably, if you get no errors) in ext3 format and are being mounted as such. If they say "ext2", the partitions _may_ be in ext3 format (but probably not, if you didn't convert them) but are being mounted as ext2 (a perfectly acceptable situation).
To convert a partition from ext2 to ext3, you need to do two things:1) run "tune2fs -j /dev/hd[whatever partition]. For example, if the partition is /dev/hdc2, you'd run "tune2fs -j /dev/hdc2". The conversion takes anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes depending on the size of the partition.
2) instruct the system to henceforth mount the partition as ext3. Do this by changing the "ext2" in /etc/fstab to "ext3", for each partition that you've converted. If you forget this step, you won't hurt anything; the partitions will still be mounted as ext2, but you won't have the advantage of the journaling that ext3 gives you.
Repeat for each partition you want to convert. Then you'll either need to reboot to remount the partitions, or better yet, remount them manually:
mount /dev/hd[whatever] -o remount should do it. -- Kent