[SlugLUG] When Bad Hard Drives Happen to Good Linuxes

[Sean Kellogg]

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 13:12, Eric Carter wrote:
> I hope ext3 can be resized. Doing stuff like converting partitions from one
> type to another and back is the kind thing that generally unnerves me. (Be
> it word processor documents or partitions, I'm always afraid the
> conversion/process isn't really as lossless as it claims).

As I understand it there is virtually no difference between ext3 and ext2 
outside of the journaling stuff.  Which means the conversion from 3 to 2, and 
back again, is painless.  Why, exactly, the resizing tools can't do it 
transparently, I don't know.  But I've seen in done many a time without 
incident.

-Sean

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