Re: ext3 journal

2005-12-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
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

Re: [Fwd: Re: ext3 journal problem]

2004-04-04 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:12:00AM -0500, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > Thanks all > > After turning off the journal with > tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda2 > e2fsck reported bad superblocks ...all of them? You can specify alternative superblocks with the -b option; there are usually several. --

[Fwd: Re: ext3 journal problem]

2004-04-03 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Thanks all After turning off the journal with tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda2 e2fsck reported bad superblocks Fortunately, all important Data is copied elsewhere, So I'll just remake the partition and copy over Debian from this laptop. Incidentally, there are now available palm sized inclosur

Re: ext3 journal problem

2004-04-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Marvin Stodolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How could I disable the ext3 Journal, so that the file system could be > more directly FSCKed? Have you tried mounting them as ext2? It's an outside shot if it wasn't cleanly unmounted last time but worth a try. -- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ext3 journal problem

2004-04-03 Thread Adam Aube
Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > There is a faulty ext3 journal on my Debian desktop system (currently > on laptop), blocking booting or e2fsck. > 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 Journ

Re: ext3 journal problem

2004-04-03 Thread Pigeon
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. >

Re: ext3 journal problem

2004-04-03 Thread dircha
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.