On Tuesday 23 Apr 2002 1:55 pm, DanI wrote:
I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to convert from EXT2 to EXT3 without loosing (formatting) all my stuff on my hard drive...
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1) Make sure you have ext3 compilied into the kernel (its easier this way rather than a module, otherwise you have to set up initial ram disks and things)
2)type mount -v this will show all partitions mounted as ext2
i.e /dev/hdc3 on / type ext2 (rw) /dev/hdc1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda1 on /home type ext2 (rw)
3) for each partition type:
tune2fs -j /dev/hdX
where X is the partition letter
4) edit /etc/fstab and change ext2 to ext3
5) reboot and voila, ext3