Ext2FS (was Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind))

Nico Meijer nico.meijer at zonnet.nl
Mon Jul 5 14:02:40 PDT 2004


Hi Warren,

> Maybe.  ext2fs is supposed to be ext3fs with journalling, and ext2fs can 
> be mounted with mount_ext2fs.  I could swear I've done this with ext3fs 
> partitions, but can't recall when or where.

IIRC, ext3 can only be mounted as ext2 as long as the partition is 
marked clean.

HTH... Nico


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