On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 06:21, Ted Gervais wrote:
> At 09:10 PM 6/13/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Ted Gervais wrote:
> >
> > > I am running RH7.3.  Was wondering about changing /etc/fstab from using
> > > ext3 to ext2. Can I just amend that file to read ext2 rather than 
> > ext3.  Is
> > > it that simple?
> >
> >that will work if you just want to mount an ext3 FS as ext2, but it will
> >still contain the journal file.  if you truly want to revert it back
> >to ext2, "man tune2fs".
> >
> >rday
> 
> 
> OK.  Thanks for the info.  Now for another question.  If I was going to 
> change a system over from ext2 to ext3, and wanted to do it remotely, could 
> I just run
> "man tune2fs"  and than amend the /etc/fstab file to show ext2 rather than 
> ext3 and then unmount fstab and remount it??
> 
> Does this sound about right?  And will all this work ok remotely over an 
> internet link?

man tunefs will only show you the man pages for tunefs.  I think the
reference was that you can finf the info you need in there.

Bret



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