On Sunday 09 September 2001 1:03 pm, you wrote:
> On 7 Sep 2001, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > > > - possibility to mount ext2 (so, possibility to use an older kernel,
> > > > or to repair a system, etc)
> > >
>
> Can you explain? If I compile ext2 support as a module, can't I mount an
> ext2fs regardless of what filesystem I'm using on other partitions? This
> has always been the case, except that in Mandrake 8,0 and below, the
> modules weren't included in the initrd so that you couldn't compile
> support for your root fileystem in as a module.
>
ext3 is really just ext2 with a hidden journal file, so what is meant is that
you can mount an ext3 filesystem as ext2 - i.e., from literally any Linux
boot disk out there, or to access it from BeOS etc., and salvage your system
if something goes wrong.
HTH,
Michel
