Re: Conversion to ext3

2002-04-15 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 08:07, Mark Carroll wrote: > Quick question - how do I convert my root partition to ext3 without > introducing lots of .journal files? Can I make a bootdisk or something > that can convert what's normally my root partition? It looks like, if the > FS is mounted, you get .journ

Re: Conversion to ext3

2002-04-15 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 07:07, Mark Carroll wrote: > Quick question - how do I convert my root partition to ext3 without > introducing lots of .journal files? Can I make a bootdisk or something > that can convert what's normally my root partition? It looks like, if the > FS is mounted, you get .journ

Re: Conversion to ext3

2002-04-15 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Mark Carroll quotation: > Quick question - how do I convert my root partition to ext3 without > introducing lots of .journal files? Can I make a bootdisk or something > that can convert what's normally my root partition? It looks like, if the > FS is mounted, you get .journal files. Without

Re: Conversion to ext3

2002-04-15 Thread Andrew Agno
Patrick Kirk writes: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:33:45AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: > >Patrick Kirk writes: > > > Perhaps I'm utterly mistaken here but I think the .journal is the > > > journal part of journalling file system. A quick look at the ext3 > > > howto says how to put it on another

Re: Conversion to ext3

2002-04-15 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:33:45AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: >Patrick Kirk writes: > > Perhaps I'm utterly mistaken here but I think the .journal is the > > journal part of journalling file system. A quick look at the ext3 > > howto says how to put it on another file system but I don't know why >

Re: Conversion to ext3

2002-04-15 Thread Andrew Agno
Patrick Kirk writes: > Perhaps I'm utterly mistaken here but I think the .journal is the > journal part of journalling file system. A quick look at the ext3 > howto says how to put it on another file system but I don't know why > you would bother with ext3 if you don't have a journal. I think

Re: Conversion to ext3

2002-04-15 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:07:54AM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: >Quick question - how do I convert my root partition to ext3 without >introducing lots of .journal files? Can I make a bootdisk or something >that can convert what's normally my root partition? It looks like, if the >FS is mounted, you g