Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:43:07 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote: > >> >> >>On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: >> >>>Mounting as ext2 is a useful technique for determining whether the fs is >>>getting in the way. >> >>What's the preferred way to try to convert a root filesystem to a bigger >>journal? Forcing "rootfstype=ext2" at boot and boot into single-user, and >>then the appropriate magic tune2fs? Or what? >> > > > Gee, it's been ages. umm, > > - umount the fs > - tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/whatever > - fsck -fy (to clean up the now-orphaned journal inode) > - tune2fs -j -J size=nblocks (normally 4k blocks) > - mount the fs >
I think this is overkill, but should of course be safe.
While you're doing this anyway, you might want to make sure you enable -O +dir_index and run fsck -D.
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