[Novalug] ext3 filesystems and undelete #@%$

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi@gmail.com
Sun Sep 6 22:30:06 EDT 2009


On Sunday 06 September 2009 8:14:47 pm Ken Kauffman wrote:
> I know you can convert ext2 to ext3 and back.
> 
> Convert EXT3 to EXT2 (remove journal)
> tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdaX
> 
> Convert EXT2 to EXT3 (add journal)
> tune2fs -j /dev/hdaX
> 
> I'm not sure if it preserves the integrity of the file tables in a way that
> you can recover.   Does anyone on list have experience trying to do this.

That just turns journaling off and on.  That journaling is the only difference 
between ext2 and ext3 is a common misconception.

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