Carlos E. R. composed on 2016-03-12 01:58 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata wrote:
Can an EXT3 filesystem be "converted" to EXT2, IOW, dispense with the journal?
Yes.
mke2fs -t ext4 -O ^has_journal /dev/device
That looks destructive. I meant what I wrote, *converted*, dispensing with the journal from what without a journal would be an EXT2 filesystem. I have to maintain backward compat here. The STBs here do not all have kernels that know EXT4.
at format time. I use that on USB sticks. Method as commented on http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_o...
But I doubt the journal is the reason of your problem.
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