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.
>
>
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>
> 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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