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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:50:12 -0700
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>>Mounting as ext2 is a useful technique for determining whether the fs is
>>getting in the way.
> 
> 
> What's the preferred way to try to convert a root filesystem to a bigger
> journal? Forcing "rootfstype=ext2" at boot and boot into single-user, and
> then the appropriate magic tune2fs? Or what?
> 

Boot single-user, "remount -o ro,remount /", "tune2fs -J size=xxxM" and 
reboot.

	-hpa