Re: Switching fs-type from reiserfs to ext2/3

2002-07-02 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Thanks. I didn't realize that you had to use the ext2 utilities. I kept looking for an mkfs.ext3 or somesuch... :) On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:13:06 -0600 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:11:20 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hermann-Josef Beckers) wrote: Hi Matthew, How

Re: Switching fs-type from reiserfs to ext2/3

2002-07-01 Thread Matthew Carpenter
How are you creating the ext3 filesystem? On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 16:12:49 +0200 Hermann-Josef Beckers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to switch a partition from reiserfs to ext2 or ext3. Both fdisk and diskdrake do as I tell them to do (get no errors, rebooted as told). But whenever I try

Re: Switching fs-type from reiserfs to ext2/3

2002-07-01 Thread Collins
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:11:20 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hermann-Josef Beckers) wrote: Hi Matthew, How are you creating the ext3 filesystem? In my case just simply mke2fs -j /dev/hda9, and then Slackware 8.1 was installed on the partition. I'm using e2fsprogs-1.27 -- Collins Richey -

Switching fs-type from reiserfs to ext2/3

2002-06-30 Thread Hermann-Josef Beckers
I'm trying to switch a partition from reiserfs to ext2 or ext3. Both fdisk and diskdrake do as I tell them to do (get no errors, rebooted as told). But whenever I try to mount the partition, all I get is Wrong filesystem-type, invalid options oder superblock of /dev/hdc6 is defect ... NOw I

Re: Switching fs-type from reiserfs to ext2/3

2002-06-30 Thread Hermann-Josef Beckers
Hi Collins, thank you for your answer. Using -t does the trick, but can I trust my data on that partition. Or does anybody know how much i should wipe out? dd if=/dev/zero of=/partition bs=512 count=200 wasn't enough. The partition has 1 Gig. Mount keeps complaining, when I use the information

Re: Switching fs-type from reiserfs to ext2/3

2002-06-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
This may be too obvious, or taken care of already, but did you change the filesystem type in /etc/fstab? ++ kevin On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 07:27:02PM +0200, Hermann-Josef Beckers wrote: Hi Collins, thank you for your answer. Using -t does the trick, but can I trust my data on that

Re: Switching fs-type from reiserfs to ext2/3

2002-06-30 Thread Collins
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:27:02 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hermann-Josef Beckers) wrote: Hi Collins, thank you for your answer. Using -t does the trick, but can I trust my data on that partition. Or does anybody know how much i should wipe out?dd if=/dev/zero of=/partition bs=512 count=200