Alright, I'm still trying to get the hang of linux. Before getting any replies to the ext3 -> ext2 email, I remounted /home read-only, made a tarball of /home, unmounted it, did a mke2fs on it, remounted it, and put the tarball back so I had /dev/dasdb1 an ext2 filesystem mounted on /home. I switched the /etc/fstab line from ext3 to ext2 for LABEL=/home. After reading the email I decided, heck, why not just switch all the ext3 to ext2 in /etc/fstab, did so, and rebooted. Well, when it came time for the file system integrety check linux was most displeased. From the console I manually retyped fstab, changing the ext2's back to ext3's with echo (I really gotta learn my sed commands soon!). Maybe I was doing something additional wrong, but it seemed to not even like /home listed as ext2 though I had done a mke2fs on it. I ended up switching all the ext2 back to ext3 and getting rid of the /home line entirely, and then mounted /home manually after the reboot.
So, what did I do wrong :)?. Is there more to automatically mounting these ext3 file systems as ext2 than just changing fstab and rebooting? Please forgive my hopelessness :). Thanks, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Is there an easy way to convert an ext3 filesystem to an ext2 >> filesystem? >> >> If not, what's the hard way :)? >> >> ~ Daniel > > > Hi Daniel. > > A simple > > mount -t ext2 /dev/dasdXYZ /mnt/point > > does the job. :-) > > It's one of the real nice features that ext3 is 100% backwards > compatible with > ext2, meaning, you can simply mount it as an ext2 and it just works(tm). > > Read ya, Phil > > -- > Philipp Knirsch | Tel.: +49-711-96437-470 > Development | Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 > Red Hat GmbH | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hauptstaetterstr. 58 | Web: http://www.redhat.de/ > D-70178 Stuttgart | Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free.
