ext3 on OldWorld Macs

[Richard Petty]

I've just installed YDL 2.2 on an Old World beige G3/300 minitower.

I want to run ext3 on it and have a few questions... Firstly (and 
predictably), the ext3 conversion tool included on the YDL 2.2 disk 
won't do it's job on Old World systems and any New World machine not 
running yaboot > whatever.

Further research reveals it's actually easy to do without the tool. I've 
set up ext3 on two non-boot partitions, but I'm hesitant to convert the 
boot partition to ext3 because it might become unbootable if it's not 
cleanly mounted.

http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/howto/ext3/ext3-5.html is one of my 
reference on this issue.

So, what's the word on this?

--Richard