Re: wierdisms w/ ext3.

1999-11-03 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:00:57 -0600, Timothy Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I tried something like this: > --snip--snip--snip-- > /dev/hdb2 / ext3defaults, journal= 1 1 > --snip--snip--snip-- > but that didn't work. No --- as the readme states, you need to use "jou

Re: wierdisms w/ ext3.

1999-11-02 Thread Timothy Ball
Yeah this is my little test machine, so it only have one 2G /. I made the journal 30MB just to be on the overkill side. And if one did have more than one partition as ext3 what would the /etc/fstab look like or are the tools not that far yet? I tried something like this: --snip--snip--snip-- /d

Re: wierdisms w/ ext3.

1999-11-02 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, 2 Nov 1999 03:10:10 -0600, Timothy Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Here's the info from /var/log/dmesg. Could it be that my journal file > has a large inode number? And if you have more than one ext3 partition > can you have more than one journal file? How would you specify it... >

Re: wierdisms w/ ext3.

1999-11-02 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Mon, 1 Nov 1999 15:03:54 -0600, Timothy Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I did my best to try to follow what the README for ext3 said. I made a > journal file in /var/local/journal/journal.dat. It has an inode # of > 183669. > Then I did /sbin/lilo -R linux rw rootflags=journal=183669.

Re: wierdisms w/ ext3.

1999-11-02 Thread Timothy Ball
Here's the info from /var/log/dmesg. Could it be that my journal file has a large inode number? And if you have more than one ext3 partition can you have more than one journal file? How would you specify it... must read code... --tim "ooh kdb is neat" ball --snip--snip--snip-- Partition check:

wierdisms w/ ext3.

1999-11-01 Thread Timothy Ball
I did my best to try to follow what the README for ext3 said. I made a journal file in /var/local/journal/journal.dat. It has an inode # of 183669. Then I did /sbin/lilo -R linux rw rootflags=journal=183669. Once I reboot I saw that my kernel options had been sent, but then I get an error like