On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:55:22 -0500, Andrew Cady wrote (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:11:45AM +1100, Felix Karpfen wrote: > > [...] > >> The second paragraph suggests that this should have happened >> automatically when I updated my (very aged) Woody to Debian 3.1r1 (the >> installed kernel image is now "kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386") and changed >> the entry in /etc/fstab. >> >> This does not appear to be the case. > > Anyway, to verify that a filesystem is journaling, use: > > tune2fs -l <filesystem device>|grep 'Filesystem features' And here is what I got: # tune2fs -l /dev/hda6 | grep "Filesystem features" Filesystem features: filetype sparse_super # tune2fs -l /dev/hda7 | grep "Filesystem features" Filesystem features: has_journal filetype sparse_super For good measure, I also ran the command on /dev/hda7. This contains the Sarge pre-release and was installed as an .ext3 filesystem. > You should see the string "has_journal" in that line. If you do, > don't worry about initrd's complaining. It looks as though the initrd complaint is valid. And adding the journal (by running the command from /dev/hda7) is not a problem. I just wanted to check that I will not break something if I do. The output, that "tune2fs -l" can produce, was news to me. Thank you for pointing it out. Felix Karpfen -- Felix Karpfen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]