Hi!

> >You might not damage the underlying filesystem, but you 
> >could sure go
> >off in the weeds trying to read it, if you stumbled 
> >upon some
> >half-updated metadata... so while it may be safe for 
> >the filesystem, I'm
> >not convinced that it's safe for the host reading the 
> >filesystem.
> >
> Exactly. If the data are protected you can use other 
> software to access it. For ext3 an explicit ext2 mount 
> might do it... 

It does not :-(. dirty ext3 is marked incompatible with ext2.

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