OK, thanks for the reply. I should have mentioned that I am running SuSE 8.0 and that it has e2fsprogs version 1.26. The comment I quoted is from the 1.26 RELEASE-NOTES, but is dated July 13, 2000. I didn't see anything else in the RELEASE-NOTES that negated it. On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:45:13PM -0400, Charles Philip Chan wrote:

On Sun, 12 May 2002 15:48:01 -0500 "Robert C. Paulsen Jr." wrote:

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1. Change /etc/fstab to specify ext3 insterad of ext2.

Yes that is correct.

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2. Use tune2fs to add a journal. I think I can do this while the file system is mounted:

tune2fs /dev/sda1 -j

Actually it is

tune2fs -j partition-name

The problem with the journal that is created when the fs is mounted is that it is not hidden (it shows up as a dot file). However, e2fsprog as of 1.27 claims that it will move and hide the journal on the next reboot. In any case I suggest you create the journal on an unmounted fs.

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3. Run mkinitrd.

Yes, after you add jbd and ext3 (in that order) to the INITRD_MODULES variable in rc.confg, that is if you are using modules. Also, depending on the version of SuSE that you have, there might be a bug in mkinitrd that prevent ext3 from working proper, I suggest upgrading to the latest just in case.

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The above note is dated July 13, 2000. Is this still something to worry about? If so, what can I do about it. Perhaps there is something I can do just before using the dump command, like turning off journaling and/or sync'ing.

You are using an ancient version of e2fsprogs, upgrade immediately if you want to use ext3 (it has much better support for ext3). The version that I am using right now is 1.27 dated Mar 8, 2002.

Charles

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