[CLUE-Tech] drive formatting

[Mike Staver]

cool, now they only trick is to get the new kernel to play nice with
ext3.  I haven't tried the support in 2.4.16, but did anybody see the
note next to it when compiling?  Kinda scared me, so I didn't try it on
a production system...

"Timothy C. Klein" wrote:
> 
> And the real convenience of ext3 is that this can be done *after*
> creating a ext2 fs, or on an existing ext2 fs.  Very easy.
> 
> Tim
> 
> * Jeremiah Stanley (jeremiahstanley at yahoo.com) wrote:
> >
> >
> > > mkfs -t ext[2 | 3] or whatever /dev/sdnm, where n is the the drive letter
> > > according to the device, and M is the partition.
> >
> > Just to clarify, I think that you have to use this command to get ext3
> > support:
> >
> > /sbin/mkfs -j -t ext2
> >
> > and then mount that as ext3, the -j option tells mkfs to add the journaling
> > information.
> >
> > JStanley
> >
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