The question remains. Is there some way to install the journal during 
the debian install?


David Mandala wrote:

> 82 ext3 is ext2 with a journal.
> 
> On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 19:12, Rob Wultsch wrote:
> 
>>What is the hex code for ext3? ie 82 for ext2 or 83 for linux swap.
>>
>>Or do I make a ext3 in some other manner?
>>
>>shadow wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Rob Wultsch wrote:
>>>
>>> > Tell me if I am making any mistakes here please. The order that I will
>>> > go in is something like:
>>> >
>>> > 1. Install debian with (assuming 1 gig =1024, other wise I will reduce
>>> > the linux native by an appriot amount):
>>> > sda  1 /boot 50  MB (me thinks that 100 is a bit excessive
>>> >      2 /     871 MB ext2
>>> > *    3 swap  103 MB swap
>>> >
>>> > sdb  1 swap  153 MB swap
>>> > *    2       871 MB ext2
>>> >
>>> > *my sun has 288 MB ram so I do not think that I will be doing a ton of
>>> > swapping
>>> >
>>> > 2. Convert ext2 into a ext3 (I have instructions on how to do that
>>> > somewhere)
>>>
>>>I would check out the bf24 floppies to install Debian.  The bf24 
>>>floppies include the 2.4.18 kernel and native support for ext3 and 
>>>reiserfs.  I've been using them on x86 for over two years without a 
>>>problem, but YMMV on Sparc.
>>>
>>>


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