Hello
Payal Rathod wrote:
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 04:25:37PM +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
Each journaling filesystem keeps its journal by its own way.
In reiserfs by default journal is kept in statically pre-allocated on mkfs
time 8192 blocks (4096 bytes each) starting from 18-th block.
Is it kept in some sort of file?
No. That area of filesystem does not belong to any files stored on that
filesystem.
You can read it from device directly: dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=4096 count=8192.
I am not sure that it can be of any interest, because you will see just binary
data.
I mean can I see the file contents
using normal UNIX tools? If yes how do I do it?
You can use
debugreiserfs -j /dev/hda1 /dev/hda1
to see journal content. This will decode binary data into human readable form.
With warm regards,
-Payal
