Re: [Sheflug] Migrating from ext2 to ext3 on Debian Potato

[Alex Hudson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:38:19AM +0100, Jos? Luis G?mez Dans wrote:
> > Thats about it! I am not sure if you can do the tunefs with the partion
> > mounted rw so you may have to do it at single user level with the rootfs
> > mounted ro
> 
>     That wasn't needed, but a fsck to check the consistency would have
> been a good idea.

ext3 creates it's journal in two ways. If the disk is unmounted at the
time, it creates it on a special inode IIRC. If the disk is in use, it
creates a .journal file in the root of the filesystem on that disk.

I don't believe there is any practical different between the two, except
that having a .journal might be more susceptible to rm ;)

Cheers,

Alex.

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