Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
>       My home box is MDK 8.1 with ext2.  I would like to know if there
> is a tool to convert (almost without pain, if possible :) my ext2 partition
> to ext3.
>       I'm reading about tune2fs but I'm stepping over unknown places.
> 
>       Any kind of suggestion would be welcome.
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> Cheers,

First run (as root):

tune2fs -j /dev/hda1

Where hda1 should be replaced with your harddrive device followed by the 
number of partition on that drive that you wan't to convert.

After that just edit /etc/fstab and change filesystem type from ext2 to 
ext3 for the partition you just converted.

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