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Re: Adding journal to ext2

From Rich <rich@example.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Adding journal to ext2
Date 2015-02-03 18:12 +0000
Organization My Linux Box
Message-ID <mar32j$neh$3@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
> On 2015-02-03, Michael Baeuerle <michael.baeuerle@stz-e.de> wrote:
> > Bill Cunningham wrote:
> >> 
> >>     This might sound silly. But I formatted my linux using ext2. Why not 
> >> ext3-4 some might say. I don't know. But anyway. I know you cannot be 
> >> mounted at all on the filesystem to use e2fsck for adding the journal. Not 
> >> even mounted RO. I have a hidden file .journal in the root. But try to boot 
> >> via F20 netinstall and can't seem to get the journal inode added. Anybody 
> >> have any ideas that might be able to help me?
> >
> > The man page say that the visible ".journal" entry is generated when:
> >
> >    tune2fs -j
> >
> > is applied to a mounted filesystem. And that the next run of e2fsck on
> > the unmounted filesystem will move the journal to the normal, invisible
> > location.

> It may be that what he did is to manually put a file .journal into the
> root of the filesystem and then hope that that would be used as the
> journal. 
> So, If he added that .journal file himself, he should remove it, and
> then he should use tune2fs -j on that partition, and then reboot. 
> Then he will have an ext3 filesystem. 

> As usual he has not given us enough information to tell what it was he
> did. 

He really needs to read this:

  How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

  http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

front to back, three to four times, and let what it details sink in,
before asking more questions.

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Adding journal to ext2 "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-02 15:54 -0500
  Re: Adding journal to ext2 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-02-02 22:33 +0000
    Re: Adding journal to ext2 "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-02 18:02 -0500
    Re: Adding journal to ext2 "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-02 18:36 -0500
      Re: Adding journal to ext2 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-02-02 23:46 +0000
        Re: Adding journal to ext2 "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-02 19:06 -0500
      Re: Adding journal to ext2 Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-02-02 18:09 -0600
  Re: Adding journal to ext2 Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-02-03 00:18 +0000
    Re: Adding journal to ext2 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-02-03 20:52 +0000
      Re: Adding journal to ext2 philo <philo@privacy.not> - 2015-02-04 06:33 -0600
        Re: Adding journal to ext2 "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-04 14:42 -0500
          Re: Adding journal to ext2 philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-02-04 18:59 -0600
        Re: Adding journal to ext2 "John F" <j@j.ii> - 2015-02-04 13:28 -0800
  Re: Adding journal to ext2 Michael Baeuerle <michael.baeuerle@stz-e.de> - 2015-02-03 09:06 +0000
    Re: Adding journal to ext2 William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-02-03 16:53 +0000
      Re: Adding journal to ext2 Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-02-03 12:12 -0500
        Re: Adding journal to ext2 "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-04 14:45 -0500
          Re: Adding journal to ext2 William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-02-04 23:12 +0000
            Re: Adding journal to ext2 "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-04 20:55 -0500
            Re: Adding journal to ext2 "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-04 22:06 -0500
      Re: Adding journal to ext2 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-02-03 18:12 +0000
        Re: Adding journal to ext2 "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-04 14:35 -0500
      Re: Adding journal to ext2 "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-03 16:02 -0500
      Re: Adding journal to ext2 "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-02-03 16:02 -0500

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