Re: Conversion to ext3
Patrick Kirk writes:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:33:45AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote:
> >Patrick Kirk writes:
> > > Perhaps I'm utterly mistaken here but I think the .journal is the
> > > journal part of journalling file system. A quick look at the ext3
> > > howto says how to put it on another file system but I don't know why
> > > you would bother with ext3 if you don't have a journal.
> >
> >I think it was a request for how to get journalling without actually
> >seeing the .journal file. Some people don't like having .journal
> >files around.
> >
> Does ext3 work without these .journal files?
Yes. They only get created when you create a journal on an mounted
filesystem (unless they changed things since I last created a ext3
fs). For unmounted filesystems, they become invisible, although the
file is there in one form or another.
Andrew.
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