Re: file systems

Steven Kurylo wrote:
> On 8/8/06, Kurtis Peterson <kleedrac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I use ext3 for OS partitions and ext2 for data drives ... not sure why
>> ...
>> just do :)
>
> What is a data drive? If you mean like /home, then you're really
> confusing me. The OS partition rarely gets modified, so you could use
> ext2 on. You want journalling, ext3, on partitions with changing data
> like /home.
>

Totally agree w/ Steven on this. Fortunately, converting to ext3 is
_very_ simple from an ext2 fs. $> tune2fs -j /dev/device

Now if you do this while it's mounted then you deserve problems. :)

Get a live CD or umount the device before doing this. I'd suggest linux
single to boot into as well.

Once the journal is written, change /etc/fstab to type est3 for that
partition.

For more and safer info, see
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/ext2toext3.htm

Cheers,
lance

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