How can I clean a dirty journal??? I can't startup my machine...
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:05:24PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 22:49 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: > > > > >If you have and ext3 that you want to revert to ext2, you can just: > > > > > >tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdXX > > > > > >-Roberto
...be sure the journal is clean first though, and if you have to force it with -f be sure you know what you're doing. > >Out of curiosity, why would one want to do this? One example: if you have an external journal and the drive with that on goes bad. (Though you would probably immediately follow it with attaching a new journal on a different drive.) > >Also, you can always mount an ext3 drive as ext2 just by specifying the > >type. In fact, I think mount will autodetect ext3 as ext2 -- you have > >to explicitly ask for ext3-mounting. # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt -o ro kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. # Again, don't do this with a dirty journal. > Right. But, the OP said something about sticking with ext2 instead of > ext3. I assumed that he already had an ext3 drive that he wanted to > make ext2. No, he has an ext2 drive which he is wondering whether to make ext3. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
