On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Prabhat Ranjan wrote:

> If you upgrade to RH 7.3 it automatically offers to migrate your data to 
> ext3. Normally you would need to change the type of your partition and loose 
> all your data.
> 
> - Prabhat Ranjan

No, migrating from ext2 to ext3 need not entail *any* loss of data. All
you need is to do a tune2fs -j /dev/hdX and you are done. Make the
necessary changes to /etc/fstab and they wil lbe mounted as ext3
automatically. You can even mount the ext3 fs as ext2 quite painlessly.

Sharukh.
-- 
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri         Homeopath and Linux Enthusiast.
Mumbai, India.                  http://www.pavri.net/


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