Howto Tweak Ext3

Did you do that when the / partition was unmounted? Are you sure / is ext3 and not ext2?

~~ Andrew D.

Did you do that when the / partition was unmounted? Are you sure / is ext3 and not ext2?

~~ Andrew D.
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I did it the noobie graphical YaST way , i'm not sure but doesn't YaST automatically umount the partition it is editing? Or isn't the partition edited at all, just the way it is mounted?

Thanks!

YaST draws its data from the / partition. Therefore the / partition has to be mounted when YaST is running. You need to do the / change from a LiveCD by using tune2fs on the unmounted partition.

YaST draws its data from the / partition. Therefore the / partition has to be mounted when YaST is running. You need to do the / change from a LiveCD by using tune2fs on the unmounted partition.
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Yeah that did the trick!

EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode.

Some things about linux are so simple when you see it
Ow and btw, booting my pc was a lot faster than before, loading apps is also faster.
Great tweak!

And thanks Andrew for your help!
Keep it up!

Greets

This HOWTO has been converted into an OpenSUSE WIKI page:

http://en.opensuse.org/Speeding_up_Ext3

~~ Andrew D.

But the wiki page should talk about using YaST, in my opinion. Any time you need to edit the /etc/fstab file, you almost certainly should just use the Paritioner tool in YaST. It has an entry for journaling mode, but I don't see anything for the directory indexing. It also has a nice check box for turning off atime.

But the wiki page should talk about using YaST, in my opinion.[/b]

It's a WIKI for a reason. I might be able to get to adding that this weekend, but if you've got the time and the desire, go for it.