How do I change from ext3 to ext2?

[Net Llama!]

On 02/10/03 19:04, Gerry Doris wrote:
> This is on a dual boot system and I was going to use Partition Magic's
> DriveCopy to copy the entire drive all at once to a new drive.  Problem is
> that my copy of DriveCopy doesn't understand ext3.

that's what dd is for.  its free, and works as advertised.

> Perhaps I can just change the partitions to ext2, let DriveCopy copy the
> entire disk to the new one, and then change them back to ext3 so 
> everything will work again?

if you trust this DriveCopy thing.  quite frankly i'd be very concerned 
about using a commerical product that can't even understand your filesystem.

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