[CLUE-Tech] Converting ext2 to ext3

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:44:59AM -0600, Warren wrote:
>Not sure if this has been a topic before, but how easy is it to convert
>a partition from ext2 to ext3 (and back again if necessary)?

Converting to and from ext3 is super easy.  You've already seen the
"tune2fs" command.  To convert back, just cleanly unmount the ext3
file-system and you can mount it again as ext2 without doing anything
special.

Sean
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