Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:16:19 -0400 | From | "Robert L. Harris" <> | Subject | ext2 -> ext3 on the fly? |
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I have a number of servers which are currently mounting /usr as ext2. I have a means of doing an tune2fs -j on all of them remotely en mass but I'd rather not reboot them all to enable journaling on machines that are up and not having issues. I've tried to do a:
mount -t ext3 -o remount /usr
as well as just a mount -o remount after changing the fstab.
on a test box but it just blows out a usage message. Is there a way to do this remount without a complete reboot that'll be transparant to users?
If not, is it dangerous to tune2fs the filesystems, change the fstab and then leave the box up for 2-6 months and let them reboot through atrrition, upgrades, etc?
Current kernel is 2.4.21-ac3, getting outages and upgrades is a rather long process involving regression testing, etc.
Robert
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