A questiong about replacing my failing drive

[rodrigob at suespammers.org (Rodrigo Barbosa)]

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On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 09:06:26PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Peter Farrow wrote:
> >If you use ghost, you need to edit fstab to make it look for ext 2 file 
> >systems as ghost doesn't copy the journal inode of ext 3.
> >
> >then use tune2fs -j /dev/....... to add it back in and edit the fstab 
> >back to ext3 on the new drive...
> 
> well shucks! someone should've told me that before I ghosted my web 
> server's hard drive, three hard drives of client machines and all the 
> countless other "ext3" file systems that my boss has done in recent past 
> using ghost. Darn, if we've known its not supposed to work then we may 
> not have been able to do what we've already done. ;)
> 
> in short, yes it does and no you don't have to do anything special with 
> fstab to make ghost work which is why I made the comment I did about it 
> just working.

Actually, both of you are right :)

Under normal condition, you can just ignore the journal metadata.
However, if you are cloning right after a crash, you might want to
be careful, since the filesystem might be inconsistent.

[]s

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Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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