On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 23:10, IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R wrote: > Mr. Smit: > > With regard to the tail packing, yes, I need it; I am using a > laptop with limited space. Any ideas on whether it has become a stable > option to use yet in EXT3? I personally do not think it would ever be included in EXT3 as one of the main features of EXT3 is backwardscompatibility with EXT2 and I do not think tailpacking would be backwardscompatible. But I'm not a developer so I'm not sure about this. > With regard to turning off the journaling via tune2fs, I think > there is a bug in tune2fs. It seems that it did not reverse whatever > needed to be reversed in order for Partition Magic to think the > filesystem was EXT2 again and not EXT3. Any further ideas? I would think this is a PQ problem because as far as I am aware when a EXT3 filesystem is unmounted cleanly every EXT2-"only" application should work smoothly with it. Perhaps resize2fs is a solution for you (should be included in e2fsprogs)? It's not as point/click as PQ but should otherwise work just nicely. Or maybe even parted (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html). I've never worked with it myself but I've heard good things about it. Regards, Erik Smit PS: Why the excessively large signature? Your signature is almost just as large as the message itself. :)
