It would appear that I've managed to confuse the journal due to various hardware lockups while experimenting with BIOS settings I suppose, or it could be impending hardware failure (I should get more disk space anyway). The partition I'm having the problem with is /home so I would like to keep it. The partition is half of a 30Gb ATA/66 IDE with a HPT366 IDE on-board controller on GigaByte something motherboard (going from memory). The other half is basically a mass storage for downloaded packages, MP3's, WAV's, & images which works fine. Both are NFS exports mounted by my sister's computer (RH6.2), mine's RH7.2.
The system was starting up ok but would lock (or probably block) any process that accessed the /home filesystem. For now I seem to be doing fine switching back to EXT2 (after a few manual e2fsck's). There seems to be plenty of references on how to create an EXT3 journal but haven't come accross any tools to check/repair/replace it. Is there a way to do this without reformatting the partition? Will the tune2fs -j option overwrite an existing ext3 journal? Didn't have time to mess with this, had an urgent project & just wanted to get on with it. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
