[ILUG] Redhat Lionux 7.2 - Problem in network configuration

[John P. Looney]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:08:41AM +0000, Niall O Broin mentioned:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:53:17AM -0000, Wynne, Conor wrote:
> 
> > Does the ilug BBC support ext3 now? Niall? 
> > I had a pain fixing it as I couldn't find the rescue disk and have an old
> > BBC :(
> 
> No, and I don't think the new LNX-BBC (version 1.618, of which I hope to
> make an ILUG variant soon, for some value of soon) does either. However,
> ext3 is just ext2 with icing and you can happily mount an ext3 partition as
> ext2 AND the ext2 on disk layout didn't change between 2.2 and 2.4 (can you
> tell I'm an irritated ReiserFS user ?). I'm not sure if it's a good idea or
> not to mount it rw but to fix a screwed up LILO this is not necessary
> anyway.

 You can mount ext3 as ext2 - but if the machine crashed, and you tryed
mount it, it'll be dirty, and should be fsck'd. Niall, it would be extra
cunning if the latest ext3 supporting e2fsprogs was on said BBC.

Kate

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