ext2->ext3

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Tom Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 20 December 2002 12:15 am, Andrew Mathews's voice rose above
> the ones in my head and declared:
>
> > You'll have to convert it to XFS first, at which time you'll decide
> > to keep it that way. ;)
>
> I had considered that.  This isn't a server or highend workstation or
> anything so I decided to go with what came out of the box.  Laziness I
> suppose.  :-)

XFS isn't just for servers.  I use it on all of my workstations.  Trust
me, the benefits are worth it.

>
> > Seriously, you should have no problems copying your files from ext2
> > to ext3 as 3 is simply 2 with a journal. What distro are you planning
> > on using?
>
> Redhat 7.3

So that's perfect, you could have used the RH-7.3 XFS images to get a
native XFS kernel & filesystem.

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lonni J Friedman				netllama at linux-sxs.org
Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo		     http://netllama.ipfox.com