On Wed 28 May, Stewart bloviated thus: > sometimes my impatience gets the better of me. I wanted to convert the > /home partition to ext3, so i unmounted it and ran mkfs.ext3. fine.
mkfs is for creating NEW partitions. You want to just add a journal to an existing partition. man tune2fs (-j option is what you're after) -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net Send email with subject "send key pub" for public key. "There's no 'I' in 'team'. But then there's no 'I' in 'useless smug colleague', either. And there's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'. Go figure." - David Brent, "The Office" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
