[ILUG] Dell Poweredge (screaming back on -topic)

[kevin lyda]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:49:26AM +0100, Fergal Moran wrote:
> One question though.  The Dell openmanage bit was a bit restrictive in
> the partitions I could create so I thought that I could make them when
> the install was complete.  However the mkfs and parted that are shipped
> with 7.2 only support ext2 (yet the installer created all the default
> partitions as ext3).  I had to make the new partitions as ext2 just to
> get it up and running for this morning - so know how do I upgrade it to
> ext3 - preferably keeping the data on it.

google, "ext2 ext3 converting", click "i'm feeling lucky", yields:

    http://www.silug.org/lists/silug-discuss/200202/msg00032.html

note that you have everything you need with rh7.2, just follow the
steps from the tune2fs portion on down.  maybe the tune2fs man page has
more info?

kevin

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