How do I change from ext3 to ext2?

[Net Llama!]

I think all you need to do is remount it as ext2.

On 02/10/03 15:17, Gerry Doris wrote:
> I want to do some disk rearranging and it would be really convenient if my 
> partition were ext2 instead of ext3.
> 
> I thought all I had to do was use tune2fs to convert the partitions to 
> ext2 and then modify fstab to indicate the partitions were ext2.  Well, 
> that ended in a kernel panic with an error that the journal couldn't be 
> found.
> 
> What's the right way?  Do I have to recompile the kernel? I'm using redhat 
> 8.
> 

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