Convert Ext2 to Ext3 on Acer Aspire Linpus Lite/Fedora 8

[Cool01]

What Happened:

I found a silly way to corrupt my hard drive. I turned my computer upside-down while it was running. We can ignore this for now.

I reloaded Linpus Lite from my recovery disc and while looking it over, I noticed that it was using Ext2 (no journaling). This makes sense for "Solid State Discs" which are being used on some Netbooks, but in my case, I think it would have saved me from having to re-install, if I had been using Ext3 journaling.

The Question/Request:

I would like change from Ext2 to Ext3. This is supposed to be simple, but I cannot find the information I need. It sounds to me like it should be something like this:

Boot to run level 3

Run "fsck" with some kind of parameter switch to created the journal.

Edit "/etc/fstab" with a simple text editor to change references from Ext2 to Ext3.

Can anyone confirm or deny any of the above for me? Also, what would be the switch on "fsck"?

. . . . why me?

[b2bwild]

1. You don't need to boot up in Runlevel 3, You can use 5 also
2.

fsck or e2fsck

Is for repairing or checking filesystem
3. To convert filesystem use this command, after backing up your data

mke2fs -j /dev/<partition>

[Cool01]

In case you have been wondering, I have not gotten around to trying this yet. At first I was simply too busy. Last night I spent a good part of the evening trying to get backups done. "Tar" kept failing on me. Anyway, I have an alternative (booting a LiveCD and using another version of "tar").

But now I am busy again. Oh well.