Harvey Ussery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently installed (from official CD set) DebPPC3.0(Woody) on > 800Mhz iMac 17" LCD. When it came time to install/format the > filesystem I was only given the option of ext2, which surprised me, > since ext3 has been available for some time. Did I miss something? > (I know that you add a -j to the format command if working from the > command line; but I was not at the command line, I was simply > responding to the installer's prompts.) Will I be able to reformat > my Deb install to ext3 later? Thanks. --Harvey
Yes, all you need to do is rune 'tune2fs -j /dev/hdaN' to add journalling to an existing partition. Then you simply change the entry in /etc/fstab to be ext3. No repartitioning needed. Cheers, jas.

