From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Filesystem recovery - e2fsck seems to have caused my filesystem
 to get wiped
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:14:08 -0500
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On 10/30/13 11:00 AM, Bernd Schubert wrote:

> Why not just unset the journal feature bit using debugfs?
> 
> debugfs -w -R "features ^has_journal"  sda1.img


Because I forgot about that option and/or thought it didn't
allow it on a dirty fs.  ;)

Much better, thanks.  :)

-Eric