Conversion of ext4 to ext3 file system ?

[Jay Mistry]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> On 08/13/2009 09:33 PM, Jay Mistry wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> > <pocallaghan at gmail.com <mailto:pocallaghan at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 12:39 +0530, Jay Mistry wrote:
> >     > I would like to convert / & /home partitions that are ext4 to ext3.
> >     > Can this be done without loss of data ?
> >
> >
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ext4_in_Fedora_11#What_about_backward.2Fforward_compatibility.3F
> >
> >     poc
> >
> >     --
> >
> >
> > Ok, backward-incompatible.
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> In some ways. You can mount a Ext3 partition as Ext4 and it will
> recognize and work with it just fine.
>
> Rahul
>

That would be the opposite of what I want to do. I have ext4 partitions
(with data) that I would like to permanently convert to ext3 (without data
loss), such as can be done from FAT32 to NTFS.

Jay
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