Well, as far as I know (and may be mistaken) to create ext3 you need to convert <whateverer> to ext2 and then use the "parted" program. no magick there :-)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Feiglin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Moshe Zadka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 8:46 PM Subject: Re: Converting from Fat32 to Ext3fs? > > > Moshe Zadka wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >>Is there a reliable utility out there to convert from Fat32 to Ext3fs? > > > > > > If you've got some unrelated backup medium > > > > tar > > mkfs > > untar > > But Caveat Emptor! I followed the relevant Howto on that, (after backing up of > course) and only managed to produce an ext2 filesystem with an un-removable > journal file its root. That is, the filesystem could not be mounted as ext3. > Further, I was by no means the only one to experience that problem. > > Current wisdom at the time said to use the distro's setup utility (SuSE 7.3) as > if you were building a new system, create the ext3 filesystem, stop the setup > and restore you data to it. That worked and left no pesky .journal file hanging > around. > > I haven't quite figured out what magic SuSE used, but I'd sure like to know. The > same trick may work for other distros. > > Apart from that bit of nastiness, it was well worth the effort. > > Regards, > > DAF > > > > > Is as reliable as they come. > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
