On Friday 28 December 2001 22:07, you 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?

You need to add an ext3 journal to the filesystem before you can mount it as 
ext3. I remember having to reach a bit for the tools yet (not in .deb's) but 
they weren't hard to find. Check Freshmeat and Sourceforge.
>
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Daniel Taylor
dante at plethora.net