On Tuesday May 28, chrisc@cs.rpi.edu wrote: > > Hi. So what is the difference in the sizes if I do the "stat <8>" > vs logdump w/i dumpe2fs? I noticed on my system that the size from "stat > <8>" yields about 33 MB but the actual journal data dump comumes right at > 10 MB of blocks. The journal dump appears to tells you which block the > journal starts from and ends at. From there you can subtract and mult by > block size to get the active journal size...I guess. Logdump tell you about the journal information that is stored within the journal file. My journal file 33000 blocks or 132000K. logdump show a journal from blocks 772 to 1019, meaning that blocks 772 to 1019 of the file contain valid journal information. NeilBrown
