Creating an ext3 File System
After installation, it is sometimes necessary to create a new ext3 file system. For example, if you add a new disk drive to the system, you may want to partition the drive and use the ext3 file system.
The steps for creating an ext3 file system are as follows:
1.Format the partition with the ext3 file system using mkfs.
2.Label the partition using e2label.
The tune2fs allows you to convert an ext2 filesystem to ext3.
/sbin/tune2fs -j block_device
Where block_device contains the ext2 filesystem you wish to convert. You must recreate the initrd image so that it will contain the ext3 kernel module. To create this, run the mkinitrd program.
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