Re: [Sheflug] ReiserFS vs. Ext3fs ... :-)

[Alex Hudson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 29 September 2001 20:24, you wrote:
> (3) How do you get ext3 to fall back to ext2? In the interests of
> science I'll make one of the P166's fall back to ext2 and see if I
> can spot the effects.

mount -t ext2 ....

Simple ;)

> (4) The only reason I can see for favouring ext3 over Reiser is that
> you can't hack Reiser partitions with my trusty TOMSRTBT maintenance
> disk - they just show up as "type: unknown". 

You could recompile it to put support in - that would probably be at the 
expense of other stuff though, and would require you to do a lot of work to 
make it happen.

> I'm pretty confident
> that TOMSRTBT will recognises ext3 as ext2 but at least I could use
> it to dub off files if an h/d becomes deeply mangled.

AFAIK ext3 uses the same disk label, so it would be recognised as ext2 (why 
not, it's compatible, which is roughly the same). You have to rebuild the 
journal though, I believe, when going from ext2->ext3.

Cheers,

Alex.
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