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...

...Daniel Simpleman

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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