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Author: David Mandala
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Subject: / spanning multiple disks
82 ext3 is ext2 with a journal.

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 19:12, Rob Wultsch wrote:
> 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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