WARNING Re: checking whether partition mounted as ext3
Quoting Paul Morgan <paulswm@earthlink.net>:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:22:42 -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > Anyone know how to safely convert an ext3 FS to ext2?
>
> A quick google (hint, hint) turns up this:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200302/msg02782.html
>
Be sure you have a rescue/boot floppy before you do this. It trashed
something related to booting and I got the classic LILO sequence:
L 01 01 01 01 01
ad infinitum.
I was able to boot using the floppy and rerun LILO. There are still
warnings about ext3/ext2 confusion:
ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,1)
I'll review the ext2 -> ext3 instructions and see if I can back out
the remaining bits of ext3.
Note: the hard disk light still stays on. I'm not sure I've banished
all of ext3, so it may still be the reason.
Jeffrey
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