Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [UPDATE] Directory index for ext2 | From | Tony Gale <> | Date | 26 Jun 2001 10:27:14 +0100 |
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I use debugfs to remove the flag before fsck'ing:
Start debugfs.
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open -f -w /dev/<part> features -FEATURE_C5
-tony
On 26 Jun 2001 00:25:32 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Monday 25 June 2001 21:51, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Daniel writes: > > > Sure, if your root partition is expendable, by all means go ahead. Ted > > > has already offered to start the required changes to e2fsck, which > > > reminds me, I have to send the promised docs. For now, just use normal > > > fsck and it will (in theory) turn the directory indexes back into normal > > > file blocks, and have no effect on inodes. > > > > This is only true without the COMPAT_DIR_INDEX flag. Since e2fsck _needs_ > > to know about every filesystem feature, it will (correctly) refuse to touch > > such a system for now. You could "tune2fs -O ^FEATURE_C4 /dev/hdX" to > > turn of the COMPAT_DIR_INDEX flag and let e2fsck go to town. That will > > break all of the directory indexes, I believe. > > This is what he wants, a workaround so he can fsck. However, the above > command (on version 1.2-WIP) just gives me: > > Invalid filesystem option set: ^FEATURE_C4 > > Maybe he should just edit the source so it doesn't set the superblock flag > for now. > > BTW, there doesn't seem to be a --version command in tune2fs. >
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