On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 06:00:13PM +0530, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
> 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.
> >
>
> 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 will
> be mounted as ext3 automatically. You can even mount the ext3
> fs as ext2 quite painlessly.
>
Which version of tune2fs is this ? The older versions do not
have this -j switch. Wondering when this addition came about.
Enquiringly yours
Bish
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'#tune2fs -L volume-label' sets volume label of an ext2 file-
system. Labels can be at most 16 characters long. The volume
can be used by mount(8), fsck(8), and /etc/fstab(5).
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