[ale] File system

[Christopher R. Curzio]

Whoops.

One thing I forgot to mention; make sure that you update /etc/fstab with
your changes after you have created the journal file. 

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Thus Spake "Christopher R. Curzio" <ale at accipiter.org>:
Fri, 31 May 2002 08:31:57 -0400


> There is no possible way (that I am aware of) to switch unlike
> filesystems on a partition without destroying data. However, if you just
> want journaling capability in your FS, you can just create a journal
> file on your ext2 partition to make it ext3. 
> 
> Make sure you're running 2.4.15 or later, and an up-to-date version of
> fileutils. Be sure  ext3 support is compiled into your kernel. Once you
> have that, all you'd need to do is to simply run:
> 
> 	tune2fs -j /dev/hdaX
> 
> You can run this on a filesystem that is either mounted or unmounted. In
> the words of Velvet Jones, It's as simple as that. (BONUS: If for some
> reason your computer croaks, you can still read the filesystem as ext2
> with a bootdisk that may not support ext3.)
> 
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> Christopher R. Curzio
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> 
> 
> Thus Spake "George Johnson" <gljay at netzero.net>:
> Fri, 31 May 2002 07:48:09 -0400
> 
> 
> > Is there any way to change the file system one is using on the fly
> > without having to save all the files, running fdisk, then coping them
> > back?  Want to go from ext2 to ReiserFS.
> > 
> > George Johnson
> > 
> 
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