Creating a journal as an afterthought

[Felix Karpfen <felixk@webone.com.au>]

I have checked the relevant entry in "man tune2fs" and, given my limited
expertise, I considered it prudent to seek additional guidance.

The relevant paragraphs read:

,----[ man_page.txt ]-
|   -j          Add  an ext3 journal to the filesystem.  If the -J option is not
|               specified, the default journal parameters will be used to create
|               an  appropriately  sized journal (given the size of the filesys-
|               tem) stored within the filesystem.  Note that you must be  using
|               a kernel which has ext3 support in order to actually make use of
|               the journal.
| 
| SNIP
| 
|               On some distributions, such as Debian, if an initial ramdisk  is
|               used, the initrd scripts will automatically convert an ext2 root
|               filesystem to ext3 if the /etc/fstab  file  specifies  the  ext3
|               filesystem  for  the root filesystem in order to avoid requiring
|               the use of a rescue floppy to add an ext3 journal  to  the  root
|               filesystem.
| 
`----

The second paragraph suggests that this should have happened
automatically when I updated my (very aged) Woody to Debian 3.1r1 (the
installed kernel image is now "kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386") and changed the
entry in /etc/fstab.

This does not appear to be the case.  One of the messages displayed when
booting the updated setup reads "ext3: No journal on filesystem on hda6
". /dev/hda6 is the partition that was updated.

What have I missed?

Felix Karpfen

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Felix Karpfen