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

[David Tomaschik]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 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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I would, to ensure the journal is clear, fsck it between the umount and
the remount.  Probably overkill, but doesn't hurt, other than taking time.

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