On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:22:14PM +1000, Craig Brown wrote:
> Hi,
Hi.
> I want to mount my root partition as ext3
Me too. See a previous thread about this.
> but the
> kernel still mounts it as ext2.
Yup.
> Could you please tell
> me what I need to do to have it mounted as ext3?
It's not something you can do (yet). The kernel needs some work to
support doing this. I outlined what needed doing in the previous
thread regarding this.
> (Note: The Ext3 is loaded by the ramdisk as the ext3.o
> module is loaded).
Good.
> Here is the procedure I followed:
> 1. Run tune2fs -j /dev/hdb1 to create journal
> 2. Change ext2 to ext3 in /etc/fstab
> 3. Make ram disk to load ext3 module
> 4. Change lilo to use ram disk
You done everything you need to do. Now you just have to wait for a
kernel to support it. :-)
b.
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Brian J. Murrell
