- To: Stewart <stewart@xxxxxxxxx>, "slug@xxxxxxxxxxx" <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] don't try this at /home
- From: Gonzalo Servat <gs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 23:09:50 +1000
On 28/05/2003 11:06 PM +1000 Stewart wrote:
sometimes my impatience gets the better of me. I wanted to convert the
/home partition to ext3, so i unmounted it and ran mkfs.ext3. fine. tried
[..snip..]
Err, have you not just wiped the partition in this first step by running
mkfs.ext3?? I beleive tune2fs is used to convert a partition to ext3
whereas mkfs.ext3 creates a clean new filesystem.
Regards,
Gonzalo.
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