Rogier Krieger wrote: > Haluk Durmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is a 80gig extern harddisk connected with usb2.0 to my laptop. > > It has an ext3fs and is full of data. > > > > I thought,that I could mount it with ext2fs, but it was not > > posible... > > Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, ext3fs is > not supported. Looking at the list of cvs changes, I can only find > changes to ext2fs support (for large files) and nothing for ext3fs; > I'd say ext3fs is not supported. > > Digging through the misc@ archives, I get the same impression. That > would mean you're out of luck until you have a chance to convert the > ext3fs filesystem into an ext2fs one.
ext3 is nothing more than ext2 with a "journal file" tacked on as an afterthought. As such, existing ext2 volumes maybe be converted to ext3 merely by creating a special ".journal"[*] file in the root of the volume and remounting. Similarly, an ext3 volume may be mounted as ext2; the only difference would be the appearance of the journal file, and lack of journaling capabilities. So I'd be very interested to know why Haluk's filesystem won't mount. [*] This special file is created by the mkfs.ext3 program, not the user. HTH, Tim Hammerquist -- scanf() is evil.
