Newsgroups: linux.redhat.install
Date: 2001-12-20 23:39:02 PST

> >     I was recently using Partition Magic 7.0 on a site, when I noticed
> > that after an EXT2 partition was converted to EXT3, Partition Magic 7.0
> > now reports the partition as "full" even though it is not!?! Any ideas on
> > this?
> >
> >     This made it impossible to resize / move the partition, after we
> > EXT3ed it. I am wondering if putting back to EXT2 (somehow? I dont know
> > how though), would allow us to resize / move, and then we could re-EXT3
> > it, no?
> >
> debugfs will restore it to ext2

You need e2fsprogs-1.17 or later. /dev/hda5 is the ext3 partition we want to convert back to ext2

root# debugfs
debugfs 1.23, 15-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
debugfs: open -f -w /dev/hda5
debugfs:  features
Filesystem features: has_journal filetype sparse_super
debugfs: features -has_journal -needs_recovery
Filesystem features: filetype sparse_super
debugfs: quit
root#

You'll probably get a warning the first time you reboot.

Dennis

> > You need e2fsprogs-1.17 or later.
>
> Does this package come with RH 7.2?

> After doing this, your saying it will make the partition appear as EXT2 to
> PM7.0 so I can resize it?

> Dont I need to also remove the journal somehow?