On Sunday, December 23, 2001, at 06:41 AM, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 20:39:31 -0800 Gnu iBook 2
wrote: Next I wanted to convert / to ext3 as well. I can only conclude that it is not possible with a stock SuSE kernel. I It is possible. I converted mine this way:
(1) Create a rescue disk.
I ended up getting a rescue disk from Debian Woody that already had a capable tune2fs on it, and was able to convert the root partition to ext3 with that. While booted with that rescue disk, I am able to mount the partition as ext3. So the partition is converted. It "has_journal" But it will not go to ext3 when I boot from the hd. In spite of specifying ext3 in /etc/fstab, it still boots to ext2. The other partition boots to ext3, so the modules are there, they are just not being used for the / partition.
(2) Now put the new e2fsck and tune2fs on it. Make sure that you copy all of the dependent libraries also. You can check which libraries are needed by running ldd on e2fsck and tune2fs.
(3) Boot from the rescue disk and convert the partition to ext3.
Regards, Charles
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