Ext3 users - Sep 2001 - (no subject)

Hi there,

I recently switched to ext3, which is nice by the way :). Though I now figured,
that it might be not all that
smart to have you swap-file on an ext3 partition as well. 

I would like to create a swap-partition, but PartionMagic refused to cooperate. 
I assume that has to do
with the fact that somehow (a flag or so?) the partion is marked as ext3 and PM
has no idea how to
handle ext3 :(. Could anyone please drop me a line and tell me how to use
debugfs to make my ext3 look like
an ext2 again so that PM is happy?

Thanx

Stephan

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:23:34AM +0000, Stephan Gutschke wrote:
 
> I recently switched to ext3, which is nice by the way :). Though I now
figured, that it might be not all that
> smart to have you swap-file on an ext3 partition as well. 
As far as I know, that should work fine.
> I would like to create a swap-partition, but PartionMagic refused to
cooperate.  I assume that has to do
> with the fact that somehow (a flag or so?) the partion is marked as ext3
and PM has no idea how to
> handle ext3 :(. Could anyone please drop me a line and tell me how to use
debugfs to make my ext3 look like
> an ext2 again so that PM is happy?
"tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/foo".  After that, an e2fsck run will
remove the journal completely (if you have a hidden journal).  

You could also try gnu parted, which I think will happily resize an
ext3 filesystem as long as it has been cleanly unmounted (although I
haven't tested it, that's just a third-hand report).

Cheers,
 Stephen