On 7/6/07, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > > umount /dev/sdb1 > tunefs -j /dev/sdb1 > vi /etc/fstab (and, change ext2 to ext3 on the mount line for this > filesystem) > mount /dev/sdb1 > > > and voila, its EXT3 now, with journalling. Thanks, John, but is that really the whole answer? Once it's ext3 it can be put into a volume group with no further ado? I would think that (particularly with a striped LVM such as Johnny mentioned) there has to be something else invovled.