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Re: Adding journal to ext2

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On Tuesday February 3 2015 11:53, in comp.os.linux.misc, "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.

He will still have to /mount/ the filesystem as ext3; an ext3 filesystem
will mount as ext2, just without journaling.

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

Typical of Bill C.

-- 
Lew Pitcher
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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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