I have found that if you edit the entries in /etc/fstab and change from ext3 to ext2, two things are still apparent.
1/. The journal file still resides on each partition. 2/. The journal module is still loaded and running So maybe tune2fs will stop these from occurring ?? Dunno... IE: Taken from a system running ext2 partitions which was swapped back to ext2 from ext3 by editing the /etc/fstab file.. 18 ? SW 0:14 [kjournald] And the filesystem; [EMAIL PROTECTED] darryl]$ ls -al / total 32981 drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Nov 27 04:03 ./ drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Nov 27 04:03 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 25 20:08 .autofsck drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 11 23:29 bin/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Nov 20 2001 boot/ drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 86016 Oct 25 20:09 dev/ drwxr-xr-x 51 root root 8192 Mar 5 23:22 etc/ drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Nov 7 2001 home/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 22 2001 initrd/ -rw------- 1 root root 33554432 Oct 26 2001 .journal drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Nov 30 00:13 lib/ ... ... it would be nice to recover the .journal file entry space :-) Rgds, Darryl > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Edward Dekkers > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ext3 to ext2 > > > But if you want your ext3 filesystems to be used as ext2 filesystems > > you don't have to change the kernel. Just modify your /etc/fstab > > file and set the file system type to ext2. > > I know you need to run tune2fs to set from ext2 to ext3. > > Quick question: You don't need to run tune2fs to set ext3 back to ext2? > > Would this delete the journal? > > Regards, > > --- > Edward Dekkers (Director) > Triple D Computer Services P/L > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
