"Glen" == Glen Lee Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Glen> I'm going to install a second hard drive and put Woody on Glen> it. I'd like to then be able to access the existing files Glen> on the original hard drive from Woody. But they're Glen> formatted ext3. Is there a way I can format them back to Glen> ext2 without losing all the data, or does debian have a Glen> precompiled 2.4.x kernel that's ready for ext3 that I can Glen> just do an apt-get upgrade with?
ext3 file systems can be mounted as ext2. Debian 2.4.18 kernel's come with ext3 support. I believe the i386 kernels had a problem (might be fixed recently) where you could not mount the root partition ext3, but the other builds work (I use k7, i686 and 586tsc). Cheers! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]