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From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot ext3 filesystem
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:37:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107211037.09095.arnout@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEYzJUFAEuYQJ_Q+tsBZR7hf2t27-M7k=FCAN-SeWBAvDD5etQ@mail.gmail.com>


On Friday 15 July 2011 11:20:59, Bj?rn Forsman wrote:
> It is not possible at the moment. But it's easy to convert an ext2
> filesystem to ext3 or ext4:
> 
> # ext2 -> ext3
> tune2fs -j image.ext2 && mv image.{ext2,ext3}

 This also requires and e2fsck, because genext2fs creates a type 0 filesystem 
while journal is only supported in type 1.

> # ext3 -> ext4
> tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index image.ext3 && mv
> image.{ext3,ext4} && e2fsck -fDC0 image.ext4

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-21  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-15  4:20 [Buildroot] Buildroot ext3 filesystem Vasanth Ragavendran
2011-07-15  9:20 ` Bjørn Forsman
2011-07-21  8:37   ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]

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