From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <006001c20c05$0a41cf10$0300000a@STATION> From: "Aslak Sommerfelt Skretting" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] EXT2 to EXT3 LVM volume on Redhat Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue Jun 4 15:17:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Hello. I've been using LVM for almost a year now, and im extremely satisfied. I use it on a Redhat 7.2 fileserver with the 2.4.18 kernel. I've combined 6 ide drives into a logical volume /dev/storage/space with an EXT2 filesystem on it, totalling around 650gb of storage. What I am wondering is, would it be wise to convert this filesystem to EXT3? Or are there risks involved when doing this? As far as i can understand a simple: tune2fs -j /dev/storage/space would create a new journal file, and convert the filesystem to ext3. and a: tune2fs -i 0 /dev/storage/space would disable the fsck's that occur now and then (and takes an insane amount of time on a 650gb filesystem), and are no longer necessary since the filesystem is EXT3. and then everything would be ok? or is there more that need to be done? Is this a complicated process that i might just as well avoid in order not to damage my data? Or is this pretty straightforward? Regards Aslak Sommerfelt Skretting aslak@skretting.org