On Sunday 25 April 2004 05:14 pm, Kevin Brown wrote:
> 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.

or just do mkfs.ext3 -j

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