Zhasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Grant Parnell wrote: > > > 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. > > Based on my playing around on the weekend > * tune2fs will jsu say "there's already a journal, go was someoen elses's > time" > * you can easily remove the journal by: > chattr -i .journal > rm journal > and then use tune2fs to make a new one... i can't vouch for the safety > of this tho... it worked in my case, but then in my case, i don't think > that drive had ever been mounted as ext3....
thanks! that seems to have resolved my problems too (for some reason i had the .journal but and the "has_journal" flag was there, but on boot it thought it was an ext2 partition) cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
