[plug] Upgrade filesystem

[Chris Caston]

Another thing I guess I could do is actually boot from the wonderful
Gentoo based System Rescue cd and perform those tasks from there.

It may be safer and I could do it with the root partition unmounted.

Thanks for you help I will look into tune2fs further.

regards,

Chris Caston 

On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 22:44, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <1071412126.1743.5.camel at syngery>
> on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:28:46PM +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> > So my real question is what is the best way to upgrade the file system
> > to EXT3 once I have upgrade the kernel?
> 
> Assuming you don't have an initrd-style system (I don't even know what
> that is), then it's just the usual for you, I imagine. Something along
> the lines of:
> 
>  - tune2fs -j /path/to/dev (for each fs to be changed)
>  - change ext2 to ext3 in /etc/fstab
>  - reboot
> 
> If you're not changing the root partition, then you can easily umount,
> tune2fs, fsck, remount. Might as well Google for this, I presume. There
> may be an extra step to avoid having a visible .journal file after
> reboot, but this might be optional or something.
> 
> 
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