Michael Havens wrote:

> and was wondering how in the world do you make the file system type ext 3. In 
> cfdisk you go in there and ext3 isn't a choice.The closest that is there is 
> Linux Extended. I am trying to make it ext3 because that is what I have 
> knowledge of (limited as it may be) but tell me what you all believe to be 
> best if it is not ext3 and tell us all why.
> 

ext3 is just ext2 with a journal file.  So if you create ext2, you can use the, 
I believe, tune2fs util to create a journal and change it to an ext3 partition. 
  Then just modify /etc/fstab to reflect the new type.
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