To see how easy it is to move from one to the other:

this creates an ext3 from ext2: tune2fs -j <device>
and this the other way round: tune2fs -O ^has_journal <device>; e2fsck
<device>

While you could move from ext2 to ext3 with a running writeable mounted
partition without any problems, the other way round is more problematic and
should only be done with unmounted partitions.

regards

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Edgar D' Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Bernhard Schauer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Ed,
> >
> > as ext2 is a subset of ext3 it is also mountable as ext2 (but then
> without
> > journalling). It is required that the Filesystem was clean unmounted
> before
> > to do that.
>
> Hi Bernhard,
> Wow - but earlier posts (in this very thread, I think) implied that
> this was not possible - to boot from an ext3 partition by treating it
> as ext2...
> Well, I did my sdcard partition as ext2, but I think I need to read up
> about ext3/ext2 to understand what you have said. Thanks for the info!
>
> Regards
> Ed.
>
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