How do I change from ext3 to ext2?

[Gerry Doris]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Net Llama! wrote:

> 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.

I'm going from a 40GB drive to an 80GB drive.  I thought that dd would end 
up making my 80GB drive look like a 40GB.  If I was moving to the same 
size drive dd would work....right?

> 
> > 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.

This is a test system and there isn't anything critical on it.  This is 
more in the line of "inquiring minds want to know". 

-- 
Gerry

"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer