AW: Re: ext3 Filessyten in FC5-Test incompatible with other FC or RHEL versions

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>If I recall, there was a change in the ext2 utilities from FC3 to FC4 
>which fsils with earlier distro created partitions.
>
>I believe you need to disable filechecking with the entries in your 
>fstab  file. That is, change the last two digits in your older distros 
>to zero.
>Alternatively, you could mount the other OS partitions whenever you need 
>to access the files on the common partitions..
>
>Are you talking about a common /home partition?

Yes, and therefore, I can't use my privous installations anymore.
And I have no idea, how to convert the ext3 back.

I have read already bug #174618, but they assume a kernel patch for
FC4. But as I want to use Centos4 and don't believe RedHat will corporate
such a patch into their Kernels.