[SlugLUG] When Bad Hard Drives Happen to Good Linuxes

[cerise at armory.com]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 02:13:12PM -0700, Rohan Sheth wrote:
> True, when you convert from ext3 to ext2 the journal file is simply
> ignored.  To ensure that it is rebuilt when you convert back, delete
> the .journal file.  It usually in the partition's mount point.
> 
> --Rohan

Almost, but you really do need to tune2fs it if you're using directory hashing
or any of the other things that make ext3 actually better than ext2. 

-Phil/CERisE