Romain Lerallut writes: > <HELP NEEDED> > However, it would seem that my root partition is still mounted > as ext3, though it's specified as ext2 in /etc/fstab: Make sure that if you're using modules, ext2 is done before ext3 (check in /etc/mkinitrd/modules). If you have ext3 in the kernel, then you have to remove the flag that the device has a journal: % tune2fs -O^has_journal /dev/blah Andrew.