Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261833AbVDZWz4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:55:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261832AbVDZWz4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:55:56 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:18400 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261808AbVDZWzt (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:55:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:56:09 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Linus Torvalds Cc: magnus.damm@gmail.com, mason@suse.com, mike.taht@timesys.com, mpm@selenic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks Message-Id: <20050426155609.06e3ddcf.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20050426004111.GI21897@waste.org> <200504260713.26020.mason@suse.com> <200504261138.46339.mason@suse.com> <20050426135606.7b21a2e2.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 887 Lines: 27 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Mounting as ext2 is a useful technique for determining whether the fs is > > getting in the way. > > What's the preferred way to try to convert a root filesystem to a bigger > journal? Forcing "rootfstype=ext2" at boot and boot into single-user, and > then the appropriate magic tune2fs? Or what? > Gee, it's been ages. umm, - umount the fs - tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/whatever - fsck -fy (to clean up the now-orphaned journal inode) - tune2fs -j -J size=nblocks (normally 4k blocks) - mount the fs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/