Re: Conversion of ext4 to ext3 file system ?

[Jay Mistry <jaylinux53@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 08/13/2009 09:33 PM, Jay Mistry wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan

> <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 12:39 +0530, Jay Mistry wrote:
>     > I would like to convert / & /home partitions that are ext4 to ext3.
>     > Can this be done without loss of data ?
>
>     https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ext4_in_Fedora_11#What_about_backward.2Fforward_compatibility.3F
>
>     poc
>
>     --
>
>
> Ok, backward-incompatible.
>
> Thanks,

In some ways. You can mount a Ext3 partition as Ext4 and it will
recognize and work with it just fine.

Rahul

That would be the opposite of what I want to do. I have ext4 partitions (with data) that I would like to permanently convert to ext3 (without data loss), such as can be done from FAT32 to NTFS.

Jay

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