On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:00:11PM +0100, Dr.-Ing. Torsten Finke wrote: > > How could I convert an Ext3 down to an Ext2, so having the > chance to work by hand? You don't need to do anything. The journal file was properly created, as other people have said; it's merely invisible (which is actually preferable, since it avoids it getting unnecessarily seen by backup programs, and it avoids disasters caused by less-than-clueful system administrators). A filesystem with a journal will also work just fine under ext2, so there's no reason to downgrade to a journal-less filesystem just because you might want to use that filesystem on an ext2-only system. That being said, if you're desparate to reclaim the few megabytes of space consumed by the journal inode, you can get rid of the inode by using "tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdXXX" while the filesystem is unmounted. But in general, there's no real reason why you need to downgrade your filesystem unless you're desparate for that space back. - Ted
