You're fine then, particularly if it's based on RH9 On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:16:23 -0600, Lloyd Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay. I take it back. According to www.distrowatch.com, it should be > kernel 2.4.20. > > Lloyd > > > > Lloyd Brown wrote: > > > It'd probably be on my ClarkConnect gateway system (home edition, > > v2.1). I believe it's based on Redhat 9, but I don't know what the > > kernel is, beyond being somewhere in 2.4. You see, I'm at work right > > now, and the system is at home, on a private IP from my ISP, etc, so I > > can't get to it from here. > > > > Thanks, > > Lloyd > > > > Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > > >> 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 > >> > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >
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