On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:07:45PM -0600, Yaron wrote:
>   Hey,
> 
> Ok, this is weird. I thought ext3 and ex2 were interchangable, so all
> you'd need to do to swich was compile a kernel with ext3 support, and then
> mount an ext2 partition as ext3. All the docs I read seem to indicate
> that.
> 
> However, when I try moounting an ext2 partition with -t ext3, I get:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 
> 
> Can still mount it as ext2. This is on a debian/unstable with 2.4.17.
> Anyone?
> 
> -Yaron
> 

First you need to convert the ext2 system to ext3. Run:

	tune2fs -j /dev/<xxxx>

where <xxxx> is your disk partition, eg /dev/hda5.

the tune2fs command creates a journal file and will let you mount the
partition as ext3.

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