Interesting that you should mention this, Harvey, as I was just looking through some ext3 documentation today. By far the best rundown on the features and tweaks of ext3 is Andrew Morton's, at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html
Furthermore, Daniel Robbins has a couple of articles on the filesystem at IBM developerWorks - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs7/ and http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs8/ Basically, ensure you have a ext3-capable kernel and current versions of util-linux and e2fsprogs, then you can tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX which will non-destructively convert your ext2 filesystem to ext3 Edit your /etc/fstab and replace any instance of 'ext2' for the partition you have tuned with 'ext3', reboot and you're away! If you want to disable the periodic fsck of your ext3 partition, simply tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hdxx Hope that helps! Chris Chris Wenn Web Administrator Technology Services State Library of Victoria 328 Swanston Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Tel: +613 8664 7117
