On Wed, April 30, 2008 07:53, Per Jessen wrote:
> This is a old(ish) SMP system, running 2.4.33, jfsutils 1.1.7.  I tried
> upgrading to 1.1.11, but had to back down to 1.1.7 as the new utils
> refused to do an fsck.

Hm, I would've assumed current jfsutils would run no matter what the
kernel version was or how old the system is. What was the error message
when jfs_fsck refused to run?

> The filesystem is about 140Gb in total of which 90Gb is
> used.  It's backed by a  softwarea RAID5 software I'm guessing the

Hm, did you try to boot off a rescue-CD [0] with more current
jfsutils/kernel?
Not that I know why this would help, but when doing fsck I tend to use the
latest and the greatest fsck tools.

Christian.

[0] http://grml.org/download/
    (comes with jfsutils-1.1.11-1 and kernel v2.6.23)
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