Martial Herbaut wrote: > > > > > 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. > It's a bit odd. I'm wondering if e2fsck actually checks the journal file correctly. Andreas and Ted will know... -
