On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:17:57PM -0500, Rhett Gibson wrote: > I am using RedHat 7.2 w/ kernel 2.4.7-10. My / filesystem is configured > as ext3. I want to change it to use data=journaled instead of ordered. > If I mount it from a boot floppy, it mounts fine. (mount /dev/hda2 /mnt > -t ext3 -o data=journal). I have attempted to find the correct > procedure to start it up as journaled from grub to no avail. I have > created a new initrd image that works fine with data=ordered. I see > where one procedure is to use lilo -R linux rw rootflags=journal=update. > (I'm not using Lilo) I'm confused about the read&write aspect as well > as why they used journal=update instead of data=journal. This > filesystem was created new with this system, so I should not have to > upgrade it. Thanks. Put "rootflags=data=journal" in your kernel command line. Also change your /etc/fstab so it does not speicfy a journal mode if you have one set in that file, because if you try to mount with a different journal mode it will stay mounted read-only, and that'll break many boot scripts. BTW, no need to change to lilo. GRUB is great. :) Mike
