Hans Deragon wrote: > Thanks for the help regarding the setting of the 6th field of /etc/fstab. > > Yet, I would like someone to explain me what I should see if I suddenly > shut the computer down and restart it? Will I see some message during > the bootstrap that says that my drive was not shutdown gracefully and it > must be repaired via the journal? Or is it fsck itself that uses the > journal to correct the system? No, the kernel should replay the journal ( = repair the fs) on the first mount of the fs if it has the flag 'needs_recovery' is set. This flag is always set if the fs is mounted and only cleared on a clean unmount. The message should look a bit like this: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on lvm(58,0), internal journal EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. If e2fsck is run on an unmounted fs that has 'needs_recovery' set, it will also replay the journal. > My point it that I do not see any difference between ext2 and ext3 > behavior. When my power went down and later came back, I had to work > with fsck to fix my ext3 drive the same way when it was ext2. > Journaling under Ext3 is either so invisible that users believe its not > on, or in my case, it actually is not on. Are there any config files? > Where is the journal stored? Is there a command to retrieve the size > of the journal? What distribution are you running? Regards, Juri _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
