On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Amy Tanner wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:53:41AM -0600, jethro at freakzilla.com (jethro at freakzilla.com) wrote: > > Hey, > > > > Quoting Amy Tanner <amy at real-time.com>: > > > > > I have a partition I want to change from ext3 to ext2. What's the > > > proper way to make this change? > > > > Mount it as ext2? I think that's one of the strengths of ext3/ext2. > > will mounting it as ext2 have the same effect as recreating the partition > as ext2? No it will not, you will still have the ext3 journal(i am not sure on how to remove it, never tried) but it is not used when booting the drive. But for all intents and purposes it is ext2. -munir > >