Enabling external HDD

[Derek Broughton]

H.M. Gladney wrote:

> Thank you, Ferrando, for your response yesterday, and for its promptness.
> 
> What you suggested worked, with a minor exception--that the system forced
> the formatting to "ext2" instead of "ext3".  For me, at least, that is
> unlikely to be a problem.

There is no such "format" as ext3.  An ext3 filesystem is an ext2 filesystem
with journaling.  You can use tune2fs to add the journal to the existing
ext2 filesystem.
-- 
derek