On Feb 22, 2002 19:00 +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. Yes, a common problem. > 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 > ... > > How could I convert an Ext3 down to an Ext2, so having the > chance to work by hand? You are using SuSE with 2.4.10 kernel? It is broken when creating a journal on a mounted filesystem. To remove the existing journal "chattr -i /.journal; rm /.journal". To create a new journal you either need to boot to another kernel version, or boot from a CD or floppy, and "tune2fs -j /dev/hda3". Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
