[KLUG Members] Roswell 2nd edition.
Bryan-TheBS-Smith
members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:51:19 -0400
Bruce Smith wrote:
> During the install process, if you select "upgrade" from an
> older Redhat installation, there is an option to convert your
> ext2 partitions to ext3, WITHOUT any loss of data. Slick!
And what I'm saying is that doing such is _cake_. All you do is create
a big file and put the inode of that file in the superblock under
"journal." As such, you can't have _any_ dataloss in
upgrading/downgrading from Ext3. And it takes about 2 milliseconds to
do either.
-- TheBS
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