[TriLUG] creating ext3 partitions on the command line

[Paul D. Boyle]

Jeremy wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, 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?
> 
> It's worth mentioning that the installer for Red Hat Linux 7.2 will
> perform the ext2 -> ext3 upgrade automatically if you agree to it.  I did
> this on two systems and it worked perfectly.  Are the other major
> distributions supporting ext3 "out of the box" yet?

SuSE 7.3 does.  I have installed SuSE 7.3 on several machines and
while I can't yet give a detailed review, I can say that I like SuSE.
YaST2 is a nice sys admin tool.  Other parts of the distro seem, so far,
well engineered.  The only gripe I have so far is that they don't include
my favorite mail client, 'elm'.

For those of you who aren't "desktop" fanatics, SuSE comes with the
'blackbox' window manager.  It may not have a lot of features, but it
is small and fast like fvwm1.

Paul

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