According to this: http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/ext3/why.html ext3 is forward and backward compatible with ext2... Any user who wishes to un-journal a file system can do so easily... I am assuming un-journalling is the equivalent of converting it to ext2. How do you do this? I haven't been able to find anything. The reason I want to do this is so I can modify my partitions with PartitionMagic and PM doesn't support ext3 as of yet (http://www.powerquest.com/support/primus/id1375.cfm). ...Stephen
Hi, On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:10:33AM -0700, Stephen Rasku wrote:> http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/ext3/why.html > > ext3 is forward and backward compatible with ext2... Any user who > wishes to un-journal a file system can do so easily... > > I am assuming un-journalling is the equivalent of converting it to ext2. How > do you do this? I haven't been able to find anything. The reason I want to > do this is so I can modify my partitions with PartitionMagic and PM doesn't > support ext3 as of yet (http://www.powerquest.com/support/primus/id1375.cfm).It's not _quite_ as simple as converting to ext3, but not much harder. You just need to clear the "has_journal" bit, then e2fsck will clean up the rest of the superblock fields. Ie. tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/foo e2fsck /dev/foo should do the trick. Cheers, Stephen
> I am assuming un-journalling is the equivalent of > converting it to ext2. How > do you do this? I haven't been able to finduse debugfs and clear the journal node debugs open -w /dev/your_part features etc... Regards ====Steve Kieu http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger for SMS - Always be connected to your Messenger Friends