On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:49:09 +1000
Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled in frustration:
> On Wednesday 16 January 2002 13:24, Tim Wunder Sarpend his Quill and:
>
> > > However what happens when you wish to resize a partition/partitions
> > > that are ext3; it cannot do that, just found out this week. Cannot
> > > work with ext3 partitions.
> >
> > But isn't ext3 just ext2 with journaling? Can't you make the partition
> > ext2 without destroying the data? Then, resize the partition as ext2
> > and the rebuild the journal and make it an ext3 partition?
> >
> > Just asking...
> >
> > Tim
>
> Does not work that way mate...........In Suse you either have it as ext2
> or ext3. If its ext3 you cannot turn it back to ext2 without formatting
> AFAIK.
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Hey Skippy,
Now I'm confused (well..., I usually am). I *thought* one of the
supposed virtues of ext2/ext3 was the ability to change "on the fly" from
one to the other with the approrpiate adjustments to /etc/fstab, so long
as ext3 support had been compiled into the kernel. <shrug> Mike
--
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fighting, killing, and dreadful idolatry took place there."
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