David Dawson wrote: > How does one locate the ext3 journal?
The journal is hidden from the user. It is not a file that you can locate. You can, however, locate the journal inode: $ dumpe2fs /dev/hda1 | grep Journal dumpe2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) Journal inode: 8 > In particular I want to be able to for example, remount the partition as > ext2, secure-delete the journal, fsck if required, and remount as ext3. What is your goal? You can always mount a cleanly unmounted ext3 file system as ext2. You can disable the journal (== convert the file system to ext2) with tune2fs: $ tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda1 This will also free the journal inode. Regards, Dennis -- Send personal mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] only. Off-list mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will not reach me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
