Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-17 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Matthew Sackman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:32:00AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > OK, with ext3 in 2.4.15, what packages in sid will the adventurous want > > to have installed to deal with the shiny new fs? > > > Where have you got 2.4.15 from - is this a pre kernel or an ac kerne

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Where have you got 2.4.15 from - is this a pre kernel or an ac kernel? Prerelease. Linus finally blessed ext3 into his tree. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/10/0319202&mode=thread > It's just AFAIK 2.4.14 is the latest - am I wrong here? N

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-17 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:32:00AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > OK, with ext3 in 2.4.15, what packages in sid will the adventurous want > to have installed to deal with the shiny new fs? > Where have you got 2.4.15 from - is this a pre kernel or an ac kernel? It's just AFAIK 2.4.14 is the

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 15 November 2001 08:32 am, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > OK, with ext3 in 2.4.15, what packages in sid will the adventurous want > to have installed to deal with the shiny new fs? AFAIK all the progs are already 'ready' to go . I have been using Ext3 fs in Woody for awhile and use the

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-16 Thread George Dancheff
http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/howto/ext3/index.html --- "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I want to convert a blank disk to ext3, compile > the kernel then > what? Is there a simple how to? > > > Thus spake Stephen Rueger > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 200

Re: Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-16 Thread Paolo Falcone
Robert L. Harris wrote: >If I want to convert a blank disk to ext3, compile the kernel then >what? Is there a simple how to? make an ext2 filesystem from that partition by issuing mkfs -t ext2 -j -c0 -i0 /dev/your_disk_no This will also create a journal inode then disable the 180-day forc

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-16 Thread Paolo Falcone
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: >OK, with ext3 in 2.4.15, what packages in sid will the adventurous want >to have installed to deal with the shiny new fs? An upgraded e2fsprogs. If you're using sid and upgrade it quite so often, you've got no problem on that department. Paolo Alexis Falcone __

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-15 Thread Craig Dickson
Robert L. Harris wrote: > If I want to convert a blank disk to ext3, compile the kernel then > what? Is there a simple how to? Compile a kernel with ext3 support (not in a module if you want your root fs to be ext3!), boot with the new kernel, then... To create a new ext3 partition, use mk

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-15 Thread Andrew Agno
Robert L. Harris writes: > If I want to convert a blank disk to ext3, compile the kernel then > what? Is there a simple how to? mke2fs -j /dev/hdc or whatever device you want. To convert to use a journal, try: tune2fs -j /dev/hdc Andrew.

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-15 Thread Robert L. Harris
If I want to convert a blank disk to ext3, compile the kernel then what? Is there a simple how to? Thus spake Stephen Rueger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:32:00AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > OK, with ext3 in 2.4.15, what packages in sid will the adventurous want

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-15 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:32:00AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > OK, with ext3 in 2.4.15, what packages in sid will the adventurous want > to have installed to deal with the shiny new fs? > None, everything is already there (also in woody, btw.) greets, Stephen Rüger -- "... and on the