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Re: upgrade to ext3 ?



* Paul 'Baloo' Johnson (baloo@ursine.dyndns.org) [020414 20:27]:
> On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 traxlend@cs.purdue.edu wrote:
> 
> > Here's a related question: when will those .journal files go away?
> > I have a RH7.2 system which was installed with ext3 and a Debian
> > system which I upgraded to ext3. The RH7.2 has no .journal files,
> > but the Debian machine still has them, even after a few reboots.
>
> Not sure what strange trickery RH7.2 did to do that, but the .journal
> files won't go away unless you reinstall fresh on an ext3 filesystem
> to begin with.

Isn't the .journal file rather important ?? I thought it was some sort
of "record" of your filesystem. What happens if you revert back to ext2,
delete the .journal file, and then convert it to ext3 again ??

Hall


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