From: Ted N. <tn...@as...> - 2001-04-04 20:28:40
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* Christian Kreibich (kre...@in...) wrote: > Michael Jennings wrote: > > /usr/include/linux/ext3_fs.h:#define EXT3_SUPER_MAGIC 0xEF53 > Ouch. That is the same as for ext2. Thanks anyway, Michael. Wasn't one of the goals of ext3 complete backwards compatability with ext2? I remember hearing that they wanted you to be able to mount an ext3 partition as ext2 and have it work perfectly, except that it wouldn't journal. So that people could switch more easaily or something like that. There might not be any sort of easy test to see if a partition already has the ext3 journals set up on it. If I remember correctly the ext3 code will auto convert an ext2 partition the first time you mount it. -Ted |