Re: Slow ADSL !

[Asa Liton <leyton@example.com>]

Tobias Diedrich wrote:

> Asa Liton wrote:
>
> > At start up there war some thing like : Press Ctrl-D for blah
> > blah...../ Run fsck manually etc. I don't know what this means and
> > couldn't boot Linux. So I had to go for a new installation.
>
> Jonathan Q already explained what to do, but I want to add
> something:
>
> As your kernel has ext3 filesystem support you might want to convert
> your ext2 filesystem to ext3 (don't panic, this is really easy to do
> ^_^).
> ext2 has been the linux filesystem for many years, but recently the
> demand for a journalling filesystem has grown. Journalling filesystems
> have the advantage of not requiring a filesystemcheck if your machine
> crashed, which is both convenient for you and important for servers, as
> a filesystemcheck can take a long time depending on the size of your
> harddisk.
> ext3 is really just ext2 with addon journalling, so it is backwards
> compatible (you can mount an ext3 partition with an ext2-only kernel).
>
> To convert your filesystem you have to do this:
>
> Login as root.
>
> Run "grep ext2 /etc/fstab", this should give you some output like this:
>
> melchior:~# grep ext2 /etc/fstab
> /dev/hda1       /               ext2    defaults                        1       1
> /dev/hdb1       /shared         ext2    defaults                        1       1
>
> Now for all listed partitions do "tune2fs -j <partition>", i.e. "tune2fs
> -j /dev/hda1; tune2fs -j /dev/hdb1".
> This will create a journal on your ext2 partitions.
>
> The only thing left to do ist to change ext2 into ext3 in your
> /etc/fstab. As I guess you won't feel comfortable with vi, do this:
> sed -e 's/ext2/ext3/g' < /etc/fstab > /tmp/newfstab
> mv /tmp/newfstab /etc/fstab
>
> The sed command will replace all occurences of ext2 with ext3.
>
> After the next reboot the kernel should mount your filesystems as ext3
> and you probably won't have to do a fsck again ^_-

Ok, does it mean that I'm going to change the filesystem to "ext3" ? If so,
I choose to farmat the partition with ext3 while I was installing.!! Anyway
I'm doing it.

Asa