Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > There is a faulty ext3 journal on my Debian desktop system (currently > on laptop), blocking booting or e2fsck. > I have an alternate RedHat partition for developement purpuses. > When I try to fsck the Debian /dev/sda2 therefrom, > there is a complaint about the Journal and fsck quits. > How could I disable the ext3 Journal, so that the file system could be > more directly FSCKed? You could mount it as ext2. Adam