I'm trying to setup an external journal device, but it won't mount as ext3. I can only mount it as ext2. Everything seems happy when I run the commands. It will work when I don't use the external device. This is on RH7.2, linux-2.4.18-rc2. [root@dhcp4 root]# mke2fs -O journal_dev /dev/hdb5 [root@dhcp4 root]# mke2fs -j -J device=/dev/hdb5 /dev/hdb6 [root@dhcp4 root]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb6 /home mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb6, or too many mounted file systems [root@dhcp4 root]# mount /dev/hdb6 /home [root@dhcp4 root]# ls /home lost+found [root@dhcp4 root]# What am I missing? --- toby