Switching fs-type from reiserfs to ext2/3

[Kevin O'Gorman]

This may be too obvious, or taken care of already, but did  you change
the filesystem type in /etc/fstab?

++ kevin



On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 07:27:02PM +0200, Hermann-Josef Beckers wrote:
> Hi Collins,
> 
> thank you for your answer. Using -t does the trick, but can I trust my data
> on that partition. Or does anybody know how much i should wipe out?
> "dd if=/dev/zero of=/partition  bs=512 count=200" wasn't enough. The 
> partition has 1 Gig. Mount keeps complaining, when I use the information from 
> /etc/fstab, which simply contains "/dev/hdc6 /backup ext2 1 2".
> 
> Yours
> hjb
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