[PLUG] Journaling file systems info

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Bruce Kingsland wrote:

| Dean S. Messing's Log: StarDate 0329.1033:
| >
| >  :: Go to http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs9.html
| >  ::
| >  :: Charles
| >
| > A nice site.
| >
| > As an aside, there has been at least one person on the Mandrake-experts
| > list who claimed that he ended up with several trashed files (filled with
| > nulls) under XFS when power was cut to his system.
|
| I've had system lockups under ext3 with no loss of data, and very fast
| reboots even with 'unclean' shutdowns in the fsck step.
|
| What I haven't learned (altho it may be addressed in the above
| reference, haven't read it yet) is how to create an ext3 fs, or
| upgrade an existing ext2fs to ext3, other than during a RH7.2 install.
| When I add a drive to an existing system, I can't seem to create
| partitions on that drive in ext3, but I can create ext2 partitions
| just fine. And until now, I haven't seen any such instructions.

Unofficial Linux filesystems web page is at
  http://www.osdl.org/archive/rddunlap/linux-fs.html

For ext3 conversion/usage:
Begin at  http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/
and follow to  http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html

-- 
~Randy