To benefit from the improvements of a journalled filesystem you can convert an ext2 into an ext3.

# tune2fs -j /dev/(disk partition)

Use ‘parted print all’ or gparted to find out which is the disk partition name you want to convert.

Now modify the occurences of ext2 in /etc/fstab to ext3

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