[ltp] suspend-resume problem (A20p)

[Daniel Andor]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:39:51PM -0500, Tod Harter wrote:
> On Thursday 27 December 2001 12:44, you wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Tod Harter wrote:
> > > Journaling FS is great ;o). I'm partial to ReiserFS myself, but that may
> > > be a result of having a background in database integration. For database
> > > use ext3 can't touch ReiserFS, nor if you have really large filesystems
> > > with millions
> >
> > My main reason isn't anything particularly technical or performance related
> > - we're talking laptop here: it's the ability (iirc) to convert from ext2
> > to ext3 relatively easily (compared to reiser or x, for example).
> 
> I haven't even become familiar with the tools for that. I would have assumed 
> you had to move your data off the partition, reformat, and put it back... 
> Thats about all you need to do with any of the journaling systems (assuming 
> your kernel has support enabled). I guess not every distro puts in support 
> for all of them. Personally I just compile big fat kernels with every module 
> there is, hehe. 

To convert from ext2 -> ext3 you don't even need to unmount your
filesystem. Run something like "tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX", but check at
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/index.html

Daniel.

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