[TriLUG] creating ext3 partitions on the command line

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 16:45, Paul D. Boyle wrote:
> So, what happens if you have an existing (legacy) ext2 file system
> and you want to move the disk to a box which has a more current Linux
> distribution supporting ext3?  Can one turn that legacy partition into
> an ext3 partition without wiping it and reformatting and restoring
> from back-up?  If so, how do you do that?


try looking at "man tune2fs"

In a nutshell, though :

tune2fs is a utility for tuning an ext2 file system. What you want to do
is the following :

tune2fs -j [device]

to add a journal to a device. Then, change the ext2 entry in fstab for
that device to ext3, and voila! all done.

I did this with several partitions on a RHL 7.1 system and the ext3
kernel prior to the release of RHL 7.2.

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