After turning off the journal with tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda2 e2fsck reported bad superblocks
Fortunately, all important Data is copied elsewhere, So I'll just remake the partition and copy over Debian from this laptop.
Incidentally, there are now available palm sized inclosures for laptop drives,
which USB connect to other PCs. I have found mine handy for such transfers
or just storage, if one swapped out a smaller drive for a larger one.
MarvS
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 03:00:53PM -0500, Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
There is a faulty ext3 journal on my Debian desktop system (currently on laptop),
blocking booting or e2fsck.
The precipating event may have been the copying of a tarball to /root/ which exceeded Root's reserve space.
The shut down appeared normal, but the reboot failed.
I have an alternate RedHat partition for developement purpuses. When I try to fsck the Debian /dev/sda2 therefrom, there is a complaint about the Journal and fsck quits.
How could I disable the ext3 Journal, so that the file system could be more directly FSCKed?
tune2fs -O ^has_journal
If it complains add the -f option.
This stands a chance of screwing up your filesystem badly, though, so make a backup somewhere (eg. with dd) first!
...see man tune2fs
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