[ale] oops.. mounted my ext3 partition as ext2

[James P. Kinney III]

It will not be a problem unless you yank the power out before a write is
complete. Just run sync twice (never hurts) before you unmount and then
remount next time as ext3.

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 19:07 -0400, Brian Schenken wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I just added an extra hard drive to one of our servers, created an
> ext3 partition, mounted it, copied over a huge amount of important
> data, and then noticed I mounted my ext3 partition as ext2.  (I blame
> the fat fingers) 
> 
> As far as I know, all this really does is disable journaling -  as
> ext3 is backwards compatible.  So... I should be able to remount the
> partition as ext3 and finish my beer.  But... some voice in my head
> (that was apparently off duty when I left a mistake in my fstab) is
> telling me I should make sure I don't take a risk with this data.  
> 
> So am I right?  Is swapping back and forth between mounting (and
> writing to) an ext3 partition as ext3 or ext2 - harmless?
> 
> Thanks muchly,
> Brian
> 
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