On Oct 23, 2002 05:55 +0200, Micha Holzmann wrote: > Quoting Stephen C. Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> at Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:27:24PM CEST: > > > The commandline was: tune2fs -j /dev/sdb1. After tune2fs finished its > > > work i shutdown the system again. I logged in an did following steps: > > > > > > - umount /dev/sdb1 > > > > Running tune2fs -j on a mounted filesystem is not likely to result in > > anything useful! It is probably OK if the filesystem is mounted > > readonly. If it's mounted read-write, the results are undefined, > > because the unmount of the original filesystem will scrub ext2 stuff > > back on top of the new ext3 metadata. > > Was this wrong, to unmount the filesystem *before* converting to ext3? > No, or? No, actually "tune2fs -j" on a mounted filesystem has well-defined semantics. It will create a ".journal" file in the root of the filesystem and put that inode number in the s_journal_inum field. I think Stephen just forgot the good old days of ext3 journaling ;-). Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
