Re: how to revert from ext3 back to ext2?

[Sam Watkins <swatkins@fastmail.fm>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 06:57:14PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> > You need to remove the journal.  You'll have to boot from a rescue CD of
> > some kind, and do something like:
> 
> In case you are feeling adventurous, you can probably also do it if you
> boot with "init=/bin/sh" as a boot parameter. This should put you in a
> shell with only / mounted read-only, and nothing else.

or if you don't feel like rebooting, try:

  telinit 1  # go to single user mode
  mount / -o remount,ro  # remount read-only
  ...
  mount / -o remount,rw  # remount read-write
  telinit 2  # go back to runlevel 2

I suppose you can run tune2fs in the "...".