Hi, On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:00:11PM +0100, Dr.-Ing. Torsten Finke wrote: > I tried to setup my linux box with an ext3 root file system. > That failed because of wrong initrd settings. Sorry. > Now the filesystem is marked having a journal but there > is no /.journal file anyway. I tried to buikd that > journal by hand (tune2fs -j /dev/hda3 - in my case). > That fails also. :-( > > /sbin/tune2fs -l /dev/hda3 > > says: > > ... > Journal UUID: <none> > Journal inode: 8 > Journal device: > 0x0000 > ... That's all fine. The filesystem has a journal on its hidden inode number 8. It does not need the journal to be visible in /.journal. ext3 should work quite happily in this state. Cheers, Stephen