On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 11:40, David Schwartz wrote: > > On 28 May 2002 11:18:15 -0700, Jason Shelton wrote: > > >Is there any way to query the size of an existing journal? I have heard > >a number of sizes thrown around as defaults, but I need to be able to > >reliably get the exact journal size. > > You can use 'dumpe2fs' to get the journal's inode and then 'debugfs' to > 'stat' the inode. Multiply the block count you get from the 'stat' command by > the block size and there you go. > > DS I tried that, but I must be missing something. I got from dumpe2fs that the journal is in inode 8, but doing stat 8 in debugfs gives me an error since stat expects a filename for an argument. Any other ideas? I was kinda hoping there would be a simple command I could run that would give me this info without having to calculate anything. Jason -- ---------------------------------------------------- Storix Software info@storix.com (sales) 1-619-702-6500 support@storix.com (support) 1-877-STORIX-1 (US) http://www.storix.com