Ok so I just open another console and do that, right?

Bryce C wrote:

>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdb3            69      3739  29487307+  83  Linux
> That's an ext3 partition. That could just as easily be a reiserfs
> partition. What I'm saying is that code 83 is for all linux filesystems,
> including ext2 ext3 reiserfs.
> To make the partition officially declared as a linux partition, you set
> it as 83. To format it as ext3, `mkfs.ext2 -j /dev/PARTITION`.
> Can anyone tell me why linux needs its code (83) set? I can understand
> about the various windows needing that to tell them what's theirs, but
> linux and its filesystems seem pretty oblivious to what they're on.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Subject:
> Re: / spanning multiple disks
> From:
> Rob Wultsch <robert.wultsch@asu.edu>
> Date:
> Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:12:23 -0700
> To:
> plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> 
> 
> What is the hex code for ext3? ie 82 for ext2 or 83 for linux swap.
> 
> Or do I make a ext3 in some other manner?
> 
> shadow wrote:
> 
>> Rob Wultsch wrote:
>>
>>  > Tell me if I am making any mistakes here please. The order that I will
>>  > go in is something like:
>>  >
>>  > 1. Install debian with (assuming 1 gig =1024, other wise I will reduce
>>  > the linux native by an appriot amount):
>>  > sda  1 /boot 50  MB (me thinks that 100 is a bit excessive
>>  >      2 /     871 MB ext2
>>  > *    3 swap  103 MB swap
>>  >
>>  > sdb  1 swap  153 MB swap
>>  > *    2       871 MB ext2
>>  >
>>  > *my sun has 288 MB ram so I do not think that I will be doing a ton of
>>  > swapping
>>  >
>>  > 2. Convert ext2 into a ext3 (I have instructions on how to do that
>>  > somewhere)
>>
>> I would check out the bf24 floppies to install Debian.  The bf24 
>> floppies include the 2.4.18 kernel and native support for ext3 and 
>> reiserfs.  I've been using them on x86 for over two years without a 
>> problem, but YMMV on Sparc.
>>
>>
> 
> 


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