Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 24 Nov 2001 11:54:11 +0100 | From | "Marcel J.E. Mol" <> | Subject | Re: Moving ext3 journal file |
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 04:07:44PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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.
Hm, the e2fsck check does not work for me... The .journal file still exists after
# umount /dev/hda11 # e2fsck -f /dev/hda11 # mount /dev/hda11 # rpm -q e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-1.25-1
(on redhat rawhide)
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