Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Sarge machine on which there is a 60GB HD > I use it to run simulations. About 30GB on HD is some > useful results, but it has suddenly become somewhat > inaccessible because the ext3 journal became corrupted > during the outage. By mounting the partition ext2, I > can see the data files and they look OK. I think I > need to delete the journal, but HOW? All the utils > that I have found assume that the journal is surely > good, and attempt to run it before checking for any > disk corruption. Here, it seems that this is exactly > the wrong thing to do. I think I have enough spare > space on another HD to copy the files, but it would > be so much simpler if I could just zap the journal. > Any ideas?
You can remove the journal with tune2fs -O ^has_journal (see the manual page for details) and then recreate it. Although I don't think it's strictly necessary to run e2fsck after you've removed the journal, it wouldn't hurt either. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]