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Is there any other reason that upgrading the root partition to ext3 is a bad idea?



Good question. I haven't tried it myself, but I don't think it will work. The root partition is mounted directly by the kernel IIRC and it does not seem to use the normal mount call that I tweaked to get the other partitions to magically mount as ext3. I think you would have to hack up the kernel a bit more to find where and how it mounts / and change that call. I didn't bother since that partition is small enough that an fsck doesn't take any real time. Also, since the root partition is so small I wouldn't want to waste the space that would be taken up by the journal file. Anyway, YMMV but I wouldn't recommend it.

-Mike
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