On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:17:00AM +0200, Fred Jakobza said:
> >
> >>remount for root (/*) is not possible. Only with reboot and from cdrom.
> >
> >
> >Then it begs the question... Why bother to upgrade an EXT2 filesystem to
> >EXT3, if there is no intention of remounting it as EXT3?
> >
> >If the intention is to take advantage of the journaling, then schedule a
> >reboot.  Otherwise, the whole reason for creating the journal in the first
> >place was for what?  (That's a rhetorical question.)
> The root was remounted after reboot and after creation of ext3.
> the ctime of the .journal file is over 600 days ago:
> -rw-------    1 root     root     33554432 Jun 24  2003 /.journal
> Maybe it is not in use now. Than, can I remove it????

No.  It is an artifact of converting the ilesystem when it was mounted.
Removing it would not be a good idea.
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