Hi, On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:38:46AM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2002 11:16:26 +0100 > > For now, try removing the journal and fsck'ing: > > > > tune2fs -O ^has_journal > > Thanks for your rapid response. > >tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sdb5 gives > tune2fs 1.24a (02-Sep-2001) > The needs_recovery flag is set. Please run e2fsck before clearing > the has_journal flag. Hmm, indeed, so we have to resort to harsher methods: debugfs -w /dev/sdb5 debugfs: features -needs_recovery -has_journal Filesystem features: filetype sparse_super debugfs: q should do the trick; then fsck -f to force a full fsck. Cheers, Stephen
