[NTLUG:Discuss] here is the description of the SCO IP license

Lance Simmons lance at lsimmons.net
Wed Aug 6 17:36:04 CDT 2003


On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:20:20PM -0500, fredjame wrote:
> Now that we are all 2.4+ and using ext3, what is the best way to back
> up to pre 2.4 and ext2?  

IIRC, ext3 is merely ext2 plus a journal file, so there shouldn't be any
problem moving back to a pre-2.4 kernel -- except that you'd lose
journalling.  If you unmount an ext3 filesystem, I think you should be
able to immediately remount it as ext2.

-- 
Lance Simmons
Irving, Texas



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