James M0TJC wrote: > On Wednesday 21 Dec 2005 20:04, Albert Charron wrote: > >> James, you don't have regular power failure at your place don't you? >> Here, I do. EXT2 partition don't recover very well from power failure. >> When rebooting, the system takes a lot of time, forcing a fsck... with >> EXT3, (which is EXT2 + journaling), the system restarts correctly and >> quickly. It only reapply the last operations from the journal, and >> that's it. >> > > Ok, > > Thanks for the advice! > > I know by default that MDK9.2 (my first Linux) used ext3 (I think! - the > darker red coloured one!)... a friend, who is a major league code wizard, > suggested e2fs at the time, as ext3 did tend to be that little bit slower > (K6/2-350, 64MB!) on my particular machine. > > Power reliability is excellent here, and on the rare occasion that an outage > has occurred (even for a split second, due to a local lightning strike), then > fsck has caused all kinds of problems deleting inodes and the like, and > generally borking my KDE settings! > > So, the next burning question is, can it be converted to ext3 (in a similar > way that Windows can be converted from FAT32 to NTFS?), or will it have to be > a reinstall? > > Cheers, > > James > > > I don't remember how exactly, but yes it can. A search on google might help on that one. I did it once.
If I remember well, you have to use the rescue disk because the partition to be converted must be mounted read only... you need to update the fstab file to specify that the partitions are ext3 and then, use tune2fs -j path_to_partition. Reboot the system, and voilà. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Albert Charron, B.Sc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pages.videotron.com/aysande +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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