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Re: Adding journal to ext2

From Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Adding journal to ext2
Date 2015-02-03 20:52 +0000
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On 2015-02-03, Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> writes:
>
>>     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?
>
> mkfs -t ext4 and restore from backup.

That sounds much easier (and safer!) than futzing around with other
solutions, unless you're just looking for kicks.  Me, I have better
things to do with my time.  If I were to do it, I'd make sure my backup
was good, then do the mkfs, start the restore, and go to bed.

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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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