[Novalug] File system question

Mark Smith mark@winksmith.com
Tue Apr 28 17:56:58 EDT 2009


On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:08:29PM +0000, Jeff Stoner wrote:
> The general process is:
> 
> - unmount the file system
> - remove journaling from the file system
> - run a e2fsck on the file system
> - mount the file system
> - change the file system type field in /etc/fstab
> 
> Since you're wanting to revert an entire system, you'll have to boot off a 
> CD (a live CD or a rescue CD should do) to remove journaling from the root 
> file system.

or (i'm guessing here), edit the file and reboot.  i would guess
all the right things would happen in the right order if you did
this.

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Mark Smith
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mark@tux.org



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