Re: [2.5.69] ext3 error: rec_len %% 4 != 0

[Andrew Morton]

Florian Weimer <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> > Falling back to ext2 for a while would be interesting.
> 
>  Okay, will fallback to ext2 next time a reboot is required.  (I guess
>  removing the has_journal feature using tune2fs is the easiest way to
>  do this, after a clean unmount, of course.)

No, just change its type to ext2 in /etc/fstab.

If it is the root filesystem, reboot with "rootfstype=ext2" on the
kernel command line and it will do what you want.

Make sure it's a clean shutdown though - ext2 will not mount a
needs-recovery ext3 filesystem.