- You should be doing that now.
 
                 
                  
                  
                  
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                  - Copy the patch file to the root directory of your kernel source (e.g. /usr/src/linux-2.4) and uncompress it.
 
 
                  - In the source directory type:
 
                  patch -p1 < linux-2.4.21-ext3cow-0.1.2.patch 
 
                  - Check for conflicts. Most files files in this patch are new files, and the patched files have only a few lines changed. Conflicts are unlikely.
 
                 
                  
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                  - Typically:
 
                  make menuconfig or make xconfig 
 
                  - Turn on ext3cow in the "File systems" heading.
 
 
                  - make dep
 
                  - make bzImage
 
                  - Install kernel.
 
                 
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