Hello. Is there a simple way, at a shell script level, of finding out whether an ext3 fs has a sane journal, other than mounting it or running a full fsck ? I may quite well be missing a few things here, but what I think I'd like is some option extra to e2fsck that says "if this is a journalled filesystem, and it was shut down uncleanly, just replay the journal and check for immediately obvious problems, but don't bother scanning the whole filesystem unless there's a '-f' in sight". AFAICT, the usual way of handling ext3 filesystems seems to be to mark them with fs_passno=0, so they never get fscked from the init scripts - but the journal gets replayed, and a few things get checked at mount time. If mount fails - because something horrible really did happen - then the /etc/rc.sysinit doesn't seem to have any way of coping, or dropping to an interactive shell. John. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
