ext3 filesystems - changes ??

Ric Wheeler rwheeler at redhat.com
Wed Apr 21 20:54:24 UTC 2010


On 04/12/2010 10:03 PM, Jeremy Dawson wrote:
>
> I hope this is a suitable forum for this question.
>
> I have RedHat9 installed on one partition.
>
> I have just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on another partition.  When I had a 
> choice in the installation procedure, I chose ext3 (since I understood 
> that the RedHat partitions are ext3).
>
> Now I can mount the RedHat9 partitions from ubuntu, but trying to 
> mount the Ubuntu partitions from RedHat produces an uninformative 
> error message.
>
> Why could this be ? Are there different variants of ext3 ?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Jeremy
>
>

You should probably try to use a much more recent distribution - that 
sounds quite ancient.

Fedora12 for example will give you something familiar for a Red Hat user 
and more choices :-)

ric




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