On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Stuart Robinson wrote:
> Hello all, > > I'm two days into my first debian install *hurrah* (how nice is apt?) > Sorry. > > Question: I've forgotten what kind of format my linux partitions are (I > suspect I chose 'linux' (ext3?)- how can I tell and if I really would > prefer a journalling format can I change it without a reinstall? > > For info: started with plain bf24/stable then dist-upgraded to testing, > then again to unstable. I'm pleasantly surprised that worked actually! > > Thanks in advance > > Stu > Hi Stu, Welcome to the fun world of APT! there are quite a few way to tell your file system stuff. 1) cat /etc/fstab 2) fdisk -l 3) cfdisk 4) mount 5) cat /etc/mtab 6) cat /proc/partitions It is easy to change ext2 to ext3 with a few command and some editing. if you have a journaling FS running, do a ps -A f|more you may see the daemons running for ext3 or reiserFS. I have [kreiserfsd] running. the [...] means its a kernel thing. HTH -Kev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
