On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Mark Polhamus wrote: > I can't seem to find a definitive answer in the FAQs, so: > > Can I mount a (cleanly unmounted) ext3 filesystem as an ext2 filesystem -- > readonly, then go back and mount it as an ext3 filesystem again without > converting it from ext2 back to ext3? > > I want to look at the filesystem using 2 different kernels, one of which does > not have ext3 support.
Have a look at the man page for tune2fs. To create the ext3 journal on an (unmounted, iirc) ext2 filesysten: tune2fs -j /dev/whatever && e2fsck /dev/whatever To remove said journal before mounting as ext2: tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/whatever && e2fsck /dev/whatever HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 6, 2002 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
