Is it possible to convert a file system from EXT3 -> EXT2?

[Ethan Merritt]

On Monday 10 December 2001 09:25, Jeff Silverman wrote:
>
> So what I need is a tool that will run under trinux that will convert
> EXT3 to EXT2 filesystem, 
>
This should not be necessary. The on-disk structure of an ext3 file system
is the same as for an ext2 file system.  The only difference is the addition
of a journaling file + journaling mechanism.  So an ext3 filesystem should
mount fine on a system that only knows about ext2.  You just don't get the
benefit of the journaling.

> or else a tool that will run under trinux that
> will enable EXT3 on a RH6.2 system, or else I need to get a new system
> disk and install RH7.2 with EXT3 support from scratch.  Blech!

None of that should be needed.  What sort of error messages did you get?
Why don't you try booting from a rescue disk (e.g. the one Dave Dittrich
posted about recently) and running e2fsck on your system disk.


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