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Followup to: <20011123155901.C1308@lynx.no> By author: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Don't do that. That is only good if the filesystem thinks that there > is no journal, or it is using a hidden inode for the journal (i.e. if > you run "tune2fs -l /dev/whatever" and it doesn't have "has_journal" > listed in the filesystem features (this is what happened with 2.4.10). > Otherwise, you will delete your real journal, tune2fs will complain, > and then you will need to run e2fsck to clean up after yourself, before > re-creating your journal again. > > If you have a filesystem with a .journal file, and you want to "hide" > it, just run e2fsck 1.25 while the filesystem is unmounted, and it > will do it for you. If you don't want to have a .journal in the first > place, run tune2fs -j while the filesystem is unmounted. > This is all fine and good except for the root partition (I'm pleased to hear that e2fsck 1.25 will move the journal to the hidden inode for non-root partitions.) It would be nice if this was done automagically by the mounting code instead of by fsck; that way migration would truly be painless. -hpa -- <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt <amsp@zytor.com> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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