On Feb 07, 2002 23:50 +0000, James Smaldon wrote: > The hard disk in my server/gateway started developing bad sectors and making > very strange noises the other day.. anyway i got a new drive and copied over > the partiton containing linux (ext3) onto the new drive using norton ghost > which resized it from 500 odd Megabytes in size to 20 Gigabytes, the new > drive works great but i have a few concerns since ghost knows nothing of > ext3.. > > since the size of the partition has changed, will i need to recreate the > ext3 journal? If so how do i do it? It depends on how ghost copied it over. You can just run e2fsck -f on it to start with. It will recover the journal and report the size of the fs for you. The journal is just a file, so it might all be OK. > if yes to the above question then will mounting the partition as ext3 with an > incorrect journal do any damage? i had to do this once to change fstab. Yes, but we try hard not to let that happen. Best to do e2fsck -f. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
