On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 11:45 PM, Malcolm V wrote:
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.
ah. good. i see. overtired. embarrassed. if i'd stopped to think about it, i knew mkfs is the thing that, uh, makes fs's
also . must . read . instructions . more . carefully :)
but you're right. a warning would've been polite...
cheers, ..S.
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