Patrick Kirk writes: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:33:45AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: > >Patrick Kirk writes: > > > Perhaps I'm utterly mistaken here but I think the .journal is the > > > journal part of journalling file system. A quick look at the ext3 > > > howto says how to put it on another file system but I don't know why > > > you would bother with ext3 if you don't have a journal. > > > >I think it was a request for how to get journalling without actually > >seeing the .journal file. Some people don't like having .journal > >files around. > > > Does ext3 work without these .journal files?
Yes. They only get created when you create a journal on an mounted filesystem (unless they changed things since I last created a ext3 fs). For unmounted filesystems, they become invisible, although the file is there in one form or another. Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]