Conversion / partition from ext2 to ext3

Andreas Dilger adilger at clusterfs.com
Tue Aug 10 04:00:47 UTC 2004


On Aug 10, 2004  09:42 +0800, Zhu Ye wrote:
> After I rebooted  the system, I found / partition still was mounted as ext2.
> 
> [root at ProEIM root]# cat /proc/mounts 
> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0                      # not mounted as ext3
> 
> But it is ext3 when I use df -T.
> 
> [root at ProEIM root]# df -T
> Filesystem    Type   1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3     ext3     5036316    335784   4444700   8% /                    
> /dev/hda1     ext3      101089      8724     87146  10% /boot
> /dev/hda6     ext3    66263252    466552  62430684   1% /home
> none         tmpfs      127416         0    127416   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda2     ext3     5036316    101656   4678828   3% /var
> [root at ProEIM root]#
> 
> How can I convert / partition from ext2 to ext3? Please help me.

Rebuild your initrd (mkinitrd).

Cheers, Andreas
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