From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta4.adelphia.net ([68.168.78.184]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AIja9-0006Kk-00 for ; Sun, 09 Nov 2003 02:01:57 -0500 Received: from beavis ([24.49.58.24]) by mta4.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031109070130.ZWEA4841.mta4.adelphia.net@beavis> for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 02:01:30 -0500 From: "Jacob Schmude" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 02:07:04 -0500 Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2717) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;4) In-Reply-To: <20031109063527.GA1859@optusnet.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 11/7/2003), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Message-Id: <20031109070130.ZWEA4841.mta4.adelphia.net@beavis> Subject: Re: returning ext3 to ext2 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 07:01:57 -0000 Hi Well, I'm not sure why you would want to, but the simplest way is: mount the ext3 filesystem as ext2 then remove the .journal file from the root dir of the filesystem That clears away ext3. If you want to use it as ext2 but don't necessarily want to remove the ext3 capability, just mount it as ext2. Again, not sure why anyone would want to do this, given ext2's extremely long boot-up check after an improper shutdown. HTH On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 17:35:27 +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: >hi, >the subject says it all. >is there a way one can return an ext3 filesystem to ext2 short of >reformatting it?