Let's not get into that if we don't have to. What distro / kernel version are you using?
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:45:43 -0600, Lloyd Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay. I think I can handle that, since I planned to use ext3 anyway. > If the kernel doesn't support it, do I just need to recompile? Sorry, > I'm not that familiar with the kernel internals. > > Thanks again, > Lloyd > > > > Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > >ext2 can be migrated to ext3 and back without any loss. It's done by > >running tune2fs -j /dev/whatever. This is one of the nicer features > >of ext3. You'll also need to change it's type in /etc/fstab from ext2 > >to ext3. As for kernel support, try it and see. If your kernel > >doesn't support it tune2fs probably won't either and it won't hurt > >anything to try because ext3 is backward compatible. You can mount an > >ext3 fs as ext2 without any trouble. > > > >As for moving to Reiser or whatever you pretty much have to copy your > >stuff somewhere and copy it back, there's no real way around it. > > > >On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:37:59 -0600, Lloyd Brown > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, everybody... > >> > >>What does it take to migrate file systems from one type (eg. ext2) to > >>something a bit newer (eg. ext3, Reiser, etc)? Can they be somehow > >>converted without data loss? For that matter, how do I go about making > >>sure that the system supports the file system I'm looking for? Is this > >>a kernel feature? > >> > >>Thanks, > >>Lloyd Brown > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>newbies mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > >> > >> > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >newbies mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
