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Bernard Varaine wrote:

> on this subjects is there any tool to chnage a partition from ext2 to
> ext3 without losing the data on it.
> and may be to chnage partition size also (like partition magic)
>
> Bernard
>
> George Mitchell wrote:
> > Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:30:49PM +0100, Danny Tholen wrote:
> >>
> >>> I wonder how *safe* ext3 is.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I wouldn't fall 10 stories on to it and hope to live.
> >>
> >>> I accidently filled up my /usr partition, and 10 min later
> >>> 'ls' gave segfaults.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yeah.
> >>
> >>> The file turned out to be corrupted....
> >>>
> >>
> >> Which file?  ls?  How did you determine it was corrupted?
> >>
> >>> No idea if this is related, or even caused by ext3...but suspicious
> >>> nontheless. Anyone else
> >>> problems with filesystem when partitions full?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Uhm, yeah.  Lots of problems when filesystems fill up.  :-)  Don't
> >> fill up filesystems!  :-)  Use LVM -- although even LVM can't "create"
> >> diskspace that is just not there.  :-)
> >>
> >> b.
> >>
> >>
> > Oh, and remember ext3 is just ext2 with a journal and a refined recovery
> > routine.  Whenever a file system gets full, anything left sitting in
> > memory is playing musical chairs with whatever little space is left. And
> > the end result usually has little to do with the specific file system
> > type.  My personal experience with ext3 (I used reiserfs prior to 8.1)
> > is that it is solid as a rock.  My machine hangs up on USB unload
> > consistantly, and I have NEVER had a problem on reboot.  I am using a
> > combination of ext3 and reiserfs for 100% journaling.  I LIKE IT!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >


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