[Q] ext3/4 always mounted as ext2 - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've created a ext3/4 partition (after fat32) but it's always mounted as ext2 on all the ROMs I've tested (OxygeN, MIUI, LeeDroid, AOSP, dtapps2sd). 'parted' identified the partition as ext3/4 as well. Any help is very much appreciated.
mount point info:
/sd-ext:
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 ext2 rw,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=1,data=ordered

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Is it possible for someone to create a script to convert ext3 to ext4 and backwards.
I'v flashed my recovery menu with unrevoked, and clockmodwork doesn't support ext partitions in their recovery image.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=689778&highlight=AMon
This recovery allows you to convert your ext3 partition to ext4 (not backwards)
But you can easily do it within Linux using GParted
I've tried that.
When i start gparted it indeed can let me format back to ext3, only when i format back to ext3 i will lose my data on the ext4 partition.
I thought maybe there was a option to create a GScript script, so i can run it on my phone.
Have you try to mount ext4 as ext3?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4
The ext3 file system is partially forward compatible with ext4, that is, an ext4 filesystem can be mounted as an ext3 partition (using "ext3" as the filesystem type when mounting). However, if the ext4 partition uses extents (a major new feature of ext4), then the ability to mount the file system as ext3 is lost.
peewster said:
I've tried that.
When i start gparted it indeed can let me format back to ext3, only when i format back to ext3 i will lose my data on the ext4 partition.
I thought maybe there was a option to create a GScript script, so i can run it on my phone.
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PULL the files from the ext4 partition, then format it to ext3 and PUSH them back.
globalm said:
PULL the files from the ext4 partition, then format it to ext3 and PUSH them back.
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i should had figured that out myself

ext partition on redux 1.0.2 not mounting - htc desire

I've created a ~500mb ext2 partition on my sdcard on redux custom rom 1.0.2 on htc desire. However, Link2sd doesn't seem to like this partition (complains that it can't mount and can't write a script to automount at boot), but then I read that redux comes with something installed already. However, it doesn't seem to be using the partition properly.
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