> > Very strange. Sounds like the metadata for the journal file > itself is wrecked. > > It's the root filesystem - the kernel mounts that itself, > so /etc/fstab has no effect. Look in /proc/mounts and you'll > see that it's really mounted by ext3. > > Try removing the journal altogether: > > tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda2 > e2fsck -f /dev/sda2 > > this should convert the filesystem to ext2. You can then boot > with it as ext2, then run `tune2fs -J /dev/sda2' to turn it > back to ext3. > Ok thanks for that, did that and system is back all on ext3. we'll see if this permanentely fixes it or not. We had a scsi controller failure so I would say that's when the journal got corrupted. thanks again for your help, much appreciated. Martial
