Convert Ext2 to Ext3 (was: Re: [vox-tech] Partition resizing)

Matt Roper vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 16 May 2002 22:54:39 -0700


You can add a journal to an existing ext2 filesystem with tune2fs.  E.g.

    tune2fs -j /dev/hda1

There are other journal settings that can be set with the -J option.
See the tune2fs manpage for details.


Matt

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:40:16PM -0700, Ryan wrote:
> While we're on the subject of partitions....
> 
> My new '/' partition was mistakenly created as ext2 instead of ext3, what's 
> the easiest way to convert it?
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