Alan Dayley wrote: > On Saturday 01 January 2005 04:51 pm, Michael wrote: > >>>>Partition 2 used to be ext3 but I ran: >>>>tune2fs -O ^dir_index /dev/hda2 >>>>tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda2 >>>>to convert it to ext2, thinking parted would be happy with it then. >>> >>>You need to let fsck have it's way with the partition after you remove >>>the journal. > > > Thanks for the reply. > > Did I miss a step converting to ext2? What does "let fsck have it's way" > mean? I can't find documentation for it at the moment, but I've always had to run fsck on a partition after removing the journal before it was mountable or otherwise useful. -- Michael