Gerry Doris wrote:
I want to do some disk rearranging and it would be really convenient if my partition were ext2 instead of ext3.

I thought all I had to do was use tune2fs to convert the partitions to ext2 and then modify fstab to indicate the partitions were ext2. Well, that ended in a kernel panic with an error that the journal couldn't be found.

What's the right way? Do I have to recompile the kernel? I'm using redhat 8.

No. You should run e2fsck after converting though. According to the tune2fs man page:
After setting or clearing sparse_super and filetype filesystem features, e2fsck(8) must be run on the filesystem to return the filesystem to a consistent state. Tune2fs will print a message
requesting that the system administrator run e2fsck(8) if necessary.
You should run it with the -f option to force the tune2fs operation to complete even in the face of errors. This option is useful when removing the has_journal filesystem feature from a filesystem which has an external journal (or is corrupted such that it appears to have an external journal), but that external journal is not available.
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