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...ound that I wanted to convert back to ext2 so I could still play with 2.4test kernels. Here is what I did: 1) boot the machine with kernel args init=/bin/bash 2) run debugfs on the root partition to remove the have_journal ext2 feature flag. 3) remount the root filesystem rw as ext2 Kernel Oopsville at that point. Why does ext3 even bother journaling when the filesystem is ro? 4) edit /etc/fstab so that / is ext2 5) sync the disks and reboot. 6) boot the machine with kernel args init=/bin/bash 7) fsck the / partition manually. Believe it or not, this worked fine except for the kernel...