On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:05,David A. Bandel scribed: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:03:04 +1000 > > Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed into the bitstream: > > I have ext2 on my $HOME partition and did a: > > > > kantoine@linux:~> su > > Password: > > linux:/home/kantoine # tune2fs -j /dev/hda10 > > tune2fs 1.24a (02-Sep-2001) > > Creating journal inode: > > tune2fs: Permission denied > > while trying to create journal file > > > > Whats this as I was in ROOT at the time not sued........... > > You have a slight problem with the root partition. You can't change it to > ext3 while it's mounted (not even read-only), and you can't unmount it. > You'll find you can't even change the kind of ext3 mount it is (ordered, > journaling, writeback) once the kernel mounts it. Don't even try, you run > the risk of damaging your filesystem. Easiest way is to boot to root on > another (spare) partition, change the old /, then reboot to the original > /. > > Ciao, > > David A. Bandel
Sorry David this was not root I was trying to change but /home. Did not think that I came across that inexperienced, even if the memeory is faulty. -- Keith Antoine aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
