Packages that need to be resolved.

[Jeff Laughlin]

At 12:01 PM 3/5/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Message: 2
>Subject: Re: Packages that need to be resolved.
>To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:39:36 +0200 (EET)
>From: Atro Tossavainen <atro.tossavainen+ydl@Helsinki.FI>
>Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
>Please don't post in HTML.
>
> >> File systems other than ext2 (at least ext3 and reiserfs)
> >
> > ext3 support is available on YDL 2.3 ...of course you'll have to
> > rebuild your kernel to support it.
>
>You seem to have read what I wrote a bit cursorily.
>
>I want these to be available _at install time_ so that you can create
>your file systems as that type from day 0.  Converting ext2 to ext3
>on the fly may be feasible - don't know since I don't do ext3 - but
>at least converting ext2 to reiserfs is not possible (requires a dump/
>restore cycle and spare partitions).

Converting an ext2 filesystem to ext3 is trivial. They are so close that a 
cleanly unmounted ext3 fs can be mounted as ext2. Here are the steps to 
perform the conversion
1. Compile and boot a kernel with ext3 support
2. Run "tune2fs -j /dev/sda3" where sda3 is the device whose filesystem 
you're converting
3. Edit /etc/fstab and change the filesystem type for the device from ext2 
to ext3
4. Reboot (or remount if you're a guru), done.

IMHO ext3 should be the default filesystem for new installs.

-73, Jeff

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