EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat May 30 23:14:58 UTC 2009


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> If I had my time again I would probably use ext2 rather than ext3
> as I have seen some warnings against ext3 on SSDs.
> I don't know if it is possible to downgrade an existing system?

Yes, ext3 can be downgraded to ext2 easily. In fact, it's enough to just
mount it as ext2. You can also delete the journal with tune2fs to save
space.

Note that ext4 CANNOT be downgraded to ext3 or ext2 unless you never enabled
extents.

        Kevin Kofler




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