On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:16:54PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > >No, you just have to use tune2fs to add a journal file to each > >partition, and change your fstab. ext3 is forward and backward > >compatible with ext2. Oh -- you will need a recent version of e2fsprogs > > > >J. > > So, unlike what I read in ReiserFS, I can just hang out on this for a > while and then upgrade at my leisure? This is so totally cool!!!! > Is there an performance difference between this "conversion" and > starting from scratch?
I have converted all my partitions to ext3 quite quickly -- the filesystem format is the same, and tune2fs will jsut add a file to it (it will be called ".journal") - then, change fstab, install new kernel with ext3 support, and reboot. See, there's no difference between "converting" and "starting from scratch'. Starting from scratch would mean create a ext2 filesystem and add the journal file to it, etc... (And this is absolutely great!) Read some documentation on ext3: http://people.spoiled.org/jha/ext3-faq.html J. --
