Re: Potato and ext3

2002-01-07 Thread Calyth
Thanks for all the tips... I think I'll get that done for my laptop. Hibernation is kinda funky on that thing, and it's not good to lose data. Calyth

Re: Potato and ext3

2002-01-07 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Paolo Alexis Falcone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > converting from ext2 to ext3 needs not an unmount. You only need to > issue the tune2fs -j /device/devicename for it will only add a journal > inode to the existing ext2 filesystem. > > But as a previous post stated, you can't use the new fil

Re: Potato and ext3

2002-01-07 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Calyth wrote: >I remember that converting to ext3 requires to have the drive to be >umounted before you can convert. On my laptop, I was lazy and I only >have one partition for linux (the root partition). If so, then wouldn't >I need to use a boot disk to convert ext3? can someone help? converti

Re: Potato and ext3

2002-01-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Justin R. Miller wrote on Sun Jan 06, 2002 um 09:13:32PM: > > I remember that converting to ext3 requires to have the drive to be > > umounted before you can convert. On my laptop, I was lazy and I only There was only one buggy kernel which requried this, 2.4.10. Normally you can create

Re: Potato and ext3

2002-01-06 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Calyth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I remember that converting to ext3 requires to have the drive to be > umounted before you can convert. On my laptop, I was lazy and I only > have one partition for linux (the root partition). If so, then > wouldn't I need to use a boot disk to convert ext3?

Potato and ext3

2002-01-06 Thread Calyth
I remember that converting to ext3 requires to have the drive to be umounted before you can convert. On my laptop, I was lazy and I only have one partition for linux (the root partition). If so, then wouldn't I need to use a boot disk to convert ext3? can someone help? Calyth