Hi, On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 18:26, Shaw, Marco wrote: > I found a couple of projects that have created ext2 drivers for Win32, > yet they are either read-only, or only support ext2 (cannot understand > the journalling used in ext3 apparently). Well, a cleanly-unmounted ext3 filesystem _is_ just ext2. You can mount an ext3 filesystem as ext2 quite happily, as long as the filesystem was cleanly unmounted. Just remember to unmount it again properly once you're finished, else you'll be left with a long fsck before you can mount it as ext3 again. Ext3 does set a flag in the superblock to indicate that a journal exists, but it's a "compatible" flag indicating that non-journaling ext2 drivers can mount the filesystem safely. It's only when the fs is active and mounted as ext3 that the journal becomes in-use and extra incompatible ext3-only flags get set. Cheers, Stephen
