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Subject: Re: Drive/Partition Copying Utilities
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Eric Anderson wrote:
> "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote:
> > As I understand things (ie, not well), "ext3" is just software that
> > does things differently than "ext2" and the disk structures, etc,
> > are still "ext2".  I'd expect there to be some different info in
> > those structures or something, but I do seem to recall reading that
> > the partitions can be handled the same.  By all means investigate
> > further, but I didn't want you to just give up all hope too soon.
>
> I think you are correct.. Thats why you can easily convert from ext2 to ext3.

The real question is can you mount them ext2 after that;
if not, then they are different enought that the program
will need to be changed by the vendor before it can handle
them.

-- Terry

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