[SLUG] don't try this at /home

[Stewart]

sometimes my impatience gets the better of me. I wanted to convert the 
/home partition to ext3, so i unmounted it and ran mkfs.ext3. fine. 
tried to mount it again only to discover i didn't have ext3 support in 
the kernel. oops. well i have other more pressing priorities at the 
moment so i did a bit of googling and found 
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/ext2toext3.htm which has a brief 
par. about how to convert back.

umount /dev/hda10
tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda10
e2fsck /dev/hda10
in /etc/fstab change /dev/hda10 to type ext2 (skipped coz i didn't get 
to change it to ext3 in the 1st place)
mount /dev/hda10

so I did that. remounted /home .... only to discover it empty. nothing 
but a lost+found. all gone. lucky it's only a development machine at 
the moment - no users and there wasn't anything important in my ~.

so. i guess the lesson here is, think first, mkfs later. also don't 
entirely trust google or the credible looking help pages it finds for 
you. :-/

feel free to suggest what might have gone wrong. i'd like to know for 
next time. :)

cheers,
..S.
(oh btw this is the famous debian ppc so i was actually working with a 
/dev/sda but that wouldn't make any difference, would it?)

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