[TriLUG] creating ext3 partitions on the command line

[Paul D. Boyle]

The Alchemist wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 16:45, Paul D. Boyle wrote:
> > So, what happens if ...

> 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.

Thanks, I appreciate you sharing your expertise.

Paul

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