Changeset c88227e for postlfs

Timestamp:

09/14/2002 10:27:21 PM (22 years ago)

Author:

Mark Hymers <markh@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, v1_0, v5_0, v5_0-pre1, v5_1, v5_1-pre1, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

597cd759

Parents:

282fa142

Message:

add ext3 from Tushar

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@233 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• postlfs/filesystems/ext3.xml (modified) (1 diff)

postlfs/filesystems/ext3.xml

@@ -3 +3 @@
 <title>Ext3</title>
 
-<para>TO BE DONE</para>
+<para>Ext3 is a journalized filesystem that is an extension to the ext2
+filesystem. It is backward compatible with ext2 and the conversion from ext2
+to ext3 is trivial.</para>
+
+<para>You don't need to install anything to use ext3, all the required
+packages are available with a bare LFS system.</para>
+
+<para>When building the kernel, ensure that you have compiled in ext3
+support.  If you want your root partition to be ext3, then compile the ext3 
+support in the kernel, else you may compile it as a module. Recompile the 
+kernel if needed.</para>
+
+<para>Edit your /etc/fstab. For each partition that you want to convert into
+ext3, edit the entry so that it looks similar to the following line.</para>
+
+<para><userinput>/dev/hdXX /mnt_point ext3 defaults 1 0</userinput></para>
+
+<para>In the above line, replace /dev/hdXX by the partition (e.g. /dev/hda2),
+/mnt_point by the mount point (e.g. /home). The 0 in the last field ensures
+that the partition will not be checked for consistency during bootup by the
+checkfs script. You may replace the ext3 fs type in the above by auto if you 
+want to ensure that the partition is mounted if you accidentally skip 
+enabling the ext3 support in the kernel.</para>
+
+<para>For each partition that you have converted to ext3 in /etc/fstab,
+enable the journal for the partition by running the following command.</para>
+
+<para><userinput>tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX</userinput></para>
+
+<para>Remount the concerned partitions, or simply reboot if you have
+recompiled the kernel to enable ext3 support.</para>
+
+<para>More information is available at <ulink
+url="http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html"/></para>
 
 </sect1>