On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 03:00:53PM -0500, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > There is a faulty ext3 journal on my Debian desktop system (currently > on laptop), > blocking booting or e2fsck. > The precipating event may have been the copying of a tarball to /root/ > which exceeded Root's reserve space. > The shut down appeared normal, but the reboot failed. > > I have an alternate RedHat partition for developement purpuses. > When I try to fsck the Debian /dev/sda2 therefrom, > there is a complaint about the Journal and fsck quits. > > How could I disable the ext3 Journal, so that the file system could be > more directly FSCKed?
tune2fs -O ^has_journal If it complains add the -f option. This stands a chance of screwing up your filesystem badly, though, so make a backup somewhere (eg. with dd) first! ...see man tune2fs -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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