Hi all,
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 11:10:57PM +0300, Daniel Feiglin wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance, but isn't parted itself a partioning utility? If indeed, it
> can make ext3 partitions directly, than the tar/mkfs/untar advice (similar to
> the wrong Howto's) is also incorrect.
>
> A Google later:
>
> Please look at http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/. I get the impression than it
> cannot create a NEW ext3 filesystem, and the question remains open.
What question? Of creating ext3? That's simple: mke2fs -j.
Converting ext2 to ext3? tune2fs -j (Note I havn't tried this one,
only mk).
The only question I know of that is open is fat->ext[23].
And sadly, I don't know the answer (and actually, don't think it
exists).
Didi
>
> Oleg Kobets wrote:
> > Well, as far as I know (and may be mistaken) to create ext3 you need to
> > convert <whateverer> to ext2 and then use the "parted" program. no magick
> > there :-)
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Daniel Feiglin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Moshe Zadka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 8:46 PM
> > Subject: Re: Converting from Fat32 to Ext3fs?
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>Moshe Zadka wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Hi,
> >>>>Is there a reliable utility out there to convert from Fat32 to Ext3fs?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>If you've got some unrelated backup medium
> >>>
> >>>tar
> >>>mkfs
> >>>untar
> >>
> >>But Caveat Emptor! I followed the relevant Howto on that, (after backing
> >
> > up of
> >
> >>course) and only managed to produce an ext2 filesystem with an
> >
> > un-removable
> >
> >>journal file its root. That is, the filesystem could not be mounted as
> >
> > ext3.
> >
> >>Further, I was by no means the only one to experience that problem.
> >>
> >>Current wisdom at the time said to use the distro's setup utility (SuSE
> >
> > 7.3) as
> >
> >>if you were building a new system, create the ext3 filesystem, stop the
> >
> > setup
> >
> >>and restore you data to it. That worked and left no pesky .journal file
> >
> > hanging
> >
> >>around.
> >>
> >>I haven't quite figured out what magic SuSE used, but I'd sure like to
> >
> > know. The
> >
> >>same trick may work for other distros.
> >>
> >>Apart from that bit of nastiness, it was well worth the effort.
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>DAF
> >>
> >>
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