adding jfs after the fact

[Jay Lofstead]

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> Rick Stevens
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 9:50 PM
> > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > Subject: Re: adding jfs after the fact
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 21:03 -0500, lofstead at cc.gatech.edu wrote:
> > > I neglected to add jfs support when installing FC4.  I
> can't seem to
> > > figure out how to add support for it on a running system.
>  Can anyone
> > > suggest a proper way to do this?
> >
> > Check to see if you have the file
> >
> > 	/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs/jfs/jfs.ko
> >
> > on your system.  If so, you have jfs installed.  The system
> should load
> > it automatically when you try to mount a jfs filesystem:
> >
> > 	mount -t jfs /dev/(partition-name) /mountpoint
> >
> > If you're creating a jfs filesystem, you need to do JUST ONE of the
> > following:
> >
> > 	# mkfs -t jfs /dev/(partition-name)
> > 	# jfs_mkfs /dev/(partition-name)
> >
> > See "man mkfs.jfs" for details on the various options.  Example:  To
> > build a jfs filesystem on /dev/sdb4, label it as "jfs_test"
> and mount
> > it at /jfs_test:
> >
> > 	# mkfs -t jfs -L jfs_test /dev/sdb4
> > 	# mkdir /jfs_test
> > 	# mount -t jfs /dev/sdb4 /jfs_test
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:05 PM
> > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux; lofstead at cc.gatech.edu
> > Subject: RE: adding jfs after the fact
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 09:44 -0500, Jay Lofstead wrote:
> > > I do have the jfs.ko file, but I do not have mkfs.jfs.  I
> > had tried mkfs -t
> > > jfs /dev/sda1, but that kept telling me that mkfs.jfs was
> > not found.  I
> > > could not find it either.  Any suggestions?
> >
> > Remember, you have to be the root user to use mkfs.  The
> > actual program
> > that does it is /sbin/mkfs.jfs and /sbin is not part of a non-root
> > user's path.
> >

I do not have this file in /sbin.  I do have versions for ext2, etc3, etc.
Can you tell me how to add this in?

Thanks

Jay