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From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:37:08 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot ext3 filesystem
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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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