On Jun 29, 2006 11:34 +0200, Stefan Drexleri wrote: > 2006/6/29, Zach Brown <zab@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > >No. Stephen was referring to the logdump command available from > >e2fsprog's debugfs program. Like so: > > Don't hit me, but i tried dumb thing: > > # sync > # perl -e 'print "B"x4000;' > # sync > # debugfs -R 'logdump -ac /tmp/output' /dev/hda6 > > # vi /tmp/output > > But i didn't find any patterns which look like four thousand equal > characters. > I guess, data will be encoded bevor written to disk. Why? How it is done? Data is not written to the journal normally, only metadata. Try instead to create a long filename in a directory (up to 256 chars long) and that will appear in the journal. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users