Re: ext3 why?

[xucaen <xucaen@access-4-free.com>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:24:41PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:49:58AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> | On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:51:26PM -0500, xucaen wrote:
> | > hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling
> | > fs instead of ext2?
> | 
> | Because 3 > 2.
> 
> LOL!
> 

same here!  :-D

> I use ext3 for main partitions so that if the power fails, I be likely
> to have a corrupt filesystem.  I still use ext2 for /boot, for
> example, because it is small (therefore the journal's overhead is more
> expensive) and it isn't updated very frequently and so the probability

so would you say it's ok to not use ext3 on smaller drive, lets say a 2 gb drive?

> 
> As for ext3 vs $OTHER_JOURNALLED_FS, I already had ext2 disks with
> data, so moving to ext3 was easy and painless.  Moving to anything
> else wouldn't have been so simple.
> 
> -D

Is there a way to convert an existing drive from
ext2 to ext3 without loss of data? (kinda like partition magic?)

jim