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Re: Advice about ext3, please



Paul E Condon:
> 
> I had pretty much decided the other way, but this, plus ... The drive is
> already ext3, and wikipedia article mentions problems with reverting back
> to ext2, which I would have to do. Sooooo----, I've decided to not change,
> --- for now --- 

I didn't read the article, but ext3 is fully backwards-compatible with
ext2. Just mount the (previously cleanly unmounted) filesystem as ext2
and it works.

J.
-- 
I throw away plastics and think about the discoveries of future
archeologists.
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                 <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>

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