Re: I just redid the drives on the HD

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Author: Kevin Brown
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: I just redid the drives on the HD
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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