Re: ext3 problems
"Glen" == Glen Lee Edwards <glenlee@members.fcwm.org> writes:
Glen> I'm going to install a second hard drive and put Woody on
Glen> it. I'd like to then be able to access the existing files
Glen> on the original hard drive from Woody. But they're
Glen> formatted ext3. Is there a way I can format them back to
Glen> ext2 without losing all the data, or does debian have a
Glen> precompiled 2.4.x kernel that's ready for ext3 that I can
Glen> just do an apt-get upgrade with?
ext3 file systems can be mounted as ext2.
Debian 2.4.18 kernel's come with ext3 support. I believe the i386
kernels had a problem (might be fixed recently) where you could not
mount the root partition ext3, but the other builds work (I use k7,
i686 and 586tsc).
Cheers!
Shyamal
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