tune2fs converts to an ext3 filesystem, is there a way to go back (without loss of data)?

Regards,

Kristian

I've never been able to unerstand why someone would want to, however I did stumble on this a while ago:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux...htm#_three2two

In my case, I convert my ext3 to ext2 because if you accidentally deleted something with 'rm' in ext3, it is not recoverable (as far I know, I can't find a way to do that). You can do that easily with ext2 with 'e2fsck'. So, for root file system, I use ext3, and ext2 for /home and data. What I did was just changing the '/etc/fstab' and removing '.journal' directory on the file system (sorry I'm not sure about the .journal directory, I forgot the name, but I think that was the name of the directory). But, the link given by DavidRoss is definitive as compared to what I did, just follow that.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...Partition+ext3

this thread should help..........