Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.questions
Date: 2002-05-17 22:24:03 PST

i have redhat 7.2 on a 40 gb disk… / is /dev/hda10 about 5 gb. it was ext3 till recently.

i wanted to make it ext2, so i used tune2fs to remove the journal. (tune2fs -O^has_journal /)

then i edited /etc/fstab.

i used parted to see the partition list and parted shows / now as a ext2 partition.

till here things r fine. but when i reboot, linux kernel tries mounting / read-only .. it still thinks / is ext3 and ext3 module gives up, says no journal, so kernel hangs up coz no /'s been found.

sanketh