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Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 13:19:02 -0800
From: Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: Moving ext3 journal file
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On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 11:54:11AM +0100, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 04:07:44PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > This is all fine and good except for the root partition (I'm pleased
> > to hear that e2fsck 1.25 will move the journal to the hidden inode for
> > non-root partitions.)  It would be nice if this was done automagically
> > by the mounting code instead of by fsck; that way migration would
> > truly be painless.
> 
> Hm, the e2fsck check does not work for me...
> The .journal file still exists after
> 
>    # umount /dev/hda11
>    # e2fsck -f /dev/hda11
>    # mount /dev/hda11
>    # rpm -q e2fsprogs
>    e2fsprogs-1.25-1

I was just going to comment on this as well.  I cannot get this to work as
advertised on a homegrown system as well.

Even tune2fs -l | grep inode and ls -i .journal show it's still using the
same inode.

Actually, a quick look through the code, I can't see where e2fsck would
take measures to hide .journal.  At least not in 1.25.

mrc
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