On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 23:09, Gonzalo Servat wrote: > On 28/05/2003 11:06 PM +1000 Stewart wrote: > > > 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. tried > > [..snip..] > > Err, have you not just wiped the partition in this first step by running > mkfs.ext3?? I beleive tune2fs is used to convert a partition to ext3 > whereas mkfs.ext3 creates a clean new filesystem.
Interesting that mkfs.ext3 provides no warning that you are about to wipe everything off that partition. mkreiserfs does though, which is a nice touch. Cheers, Malcolm V. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
