[TriLUG] Re: reboot experience

Jeremy Katz katzj at linuxpower.org
Wed Jan 15 16:32:45 EST 2003


On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 13:42, James Manning wrote:
> However, it's kind of also the "lack of consumer-oriented" since it's
> a result more of running a non-journalling filesystem (ext2) rather
> than something journalling-based (ext3, reiser, whatever) like most
> other distros targeted for consumers would have you run.
> 
> Course, maybe Debian has an "upgrade your ext2 to ext3" path, I
> haven't checked.

`tune2fs -j /dev/foo` will work just fine to "upgrade" from ext2 to ext3
anywhere you have a new enough e2fsprogs and kernel.  It's not like I do
anything more than that in anaconda when you choose to migrate your
filesystems :-)

Cheers,

Jeremy




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