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Re: convert ext2 to ext3 - success!



Thanx Frank Jan and others, that did the trick! Converted to ext2, noflushd working fine (the silence, the silence :-) and I've gained some new knowledge to further investigate!

Groet,


Peter Teunissen

-- Never argue with idiots; they'll drag you down to their own level and beat you on experience.


On 15-jan-05, at 0:36, Jan C. Nordholz wrote:

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:18:19PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:53:21PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote:
1> Bezegny Martin pointed out I should try 'tune2fs -O ^has_journal
/dev/hda3' wich i did try but needs to be done on an unmounted or read
only device, wich i guess is only possible on a / device when booted
from CD, right? (this is going to sound so NooB :-) How do I accomplish
that? I heard something about booting from CD and opening a shell but
don't know how to do that. What's the magic button?

No need for a CD. Try:
# telinit 1
This should stop a lot of services, and give you a prompt to enter your
root password. After entering the root password, type:
# mount / -o ro,remount
Now your root filesystem should be mounted read-only, so tune2fs should
work. After this, just reboot.
Or, if you have installed some kind of bootmanager that gives you a menu, add "ro" to the bootprompt (and maybe an "S" for single-user mode, too).
Once you get a login prompt, do your tune2fs, remount / rw, and that's
it. :-)

Btw: If you want even finer control about the mount options of the root
filesystem, see the "rootflags=" option (as listed in the kernel source's Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt) and "rootfstype=". In your case, the
following should all do the same (without warranty, just gathered from
various manpages and documents), when entered at LILO's prompt (for example):

<kernel selection> ro
<kernel selection> rootflags=ro
<kernel selection> rootflags=noload

HTH,

Jan
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Jan C. Nordholz
<jckn At gmx net>


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