Re: document ext3 requirements

Rob Landley
2009-01-04T20:19:45Z

On Saturday 03 January 2009 17:01:58 Martin MOKREJŠ wrote:
> > Still handy for recovering badly broken filesystems, I'd say.
>
> Me as well. How about improving you doc patch with some summary of
> this thread (although it is probably not over yet)? ;-) Definitely,
> a note that one can mount it as ext2 while read-only would be helpful
> when doing some forensics on the disk.

Although make sure you _do_ mount it as read only because if you mount an ext3
filesystem read/write as ext2 I've had it zap the journal entirely and then
you have to tune2fs -j the sucker to turn it back into ext3.

Ext3 is... touchy.

Rob