On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:25:42PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've been wanting to switch from ext2 to ext3 on this machine, including > > the root filesystem. > > > > I'm using the stock Debian 2.4.16-i686 kernel, which (according to > > /boot/config-2.4.16-686) has ext3 support _as a module_... > > 2.4.*16*? That's really old; even woody shipped with a 2.4.18 kernel > (though not as the default kernel).
Well, yeah...
But, see, I found pre-compiled alsa modules for 2.4.16, and I set them
up and it worked. Updating the kernel on this machine has stayed pretty
low on the to-do list ever since.
> > Now, my understanding is that this kernel uses initrd, and thus it'll be
> > okay for me to switch my root fs to ext3 (it'll load initrd first,
> > notice that it needs ext3, ins the mod, mount the root partition, then
> > carry on booting)...
> >
> > 1) confirm/deny?
>
> That sounds correct. (An initrd-based kernel will probably have
> almost nothing built in as a driver, and everything will be as
> modules, which get loaded from the initrd.)
That's what I suspected, from looking at the config file.
> With ext3 you also have the bonus that the filesystem is still a
> mostly-valid ext2 filesystem. And all of the modern rescue media I've
> seen (not the woody installer, but things like SysRescueCD and
> Knoppix) support ext3. So you shouldn't be able to hose yourself too
> badly doing this. :-)
Well, it seems to have worked fine.
Thanks for the help (or reassurance, as the case may be).
Cheers!
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