Re: Partitions and format

From: Monique Y. Herman (spam_at_bounceswoosh.org)
Date: 10/08/03

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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:00:55 +0000 (UTC)

    On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 20:40:53 +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller
    <JFahnenmueller@t-online.de> penned:
    >
    > It shouldn't be necessary to reinstall. Worst case - ackup your data
    > and reformat the partition. I think it is even possible to upgrade a
    > partition from ext2 to ext3, but I don't know in detail.
    >

    tune2fs -j <device>

    You can add another option in there to turn off filesystem checks, but I
    forget what it is exactly. 

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