On May 12 Steve and/or Judy Shaw wrote: >Forgive my novice question, but I am a new student of Linux working on >presenting the ext3 journaling filesystem to my class. I seek any advice >on how to visibly demonstrate (including a purposeful crash of a Linux >box) the benefits of ext3 over ext2. I am not worthy to lick the >bootstraps of this group, but I beg for any help! The problem I am >having extends to even locating the .journal file on my 7.2 install. >Help, and thanks in advance! Hi, The journal inode is not always visible; recent e2fsck will hide it if it is (except for a volume currently mounted)! tune2fs -l /dev/whatever will show you if it "has_journal", and, if so, what its inode/UUID/device are. HTH, Matt
