On Thu, August 3, 2006 14:09, Norbert Kiesel wrote: > - Is there a way to tell is a given directory is indexed or not? I think the "htree_dump" command in debugfs(8) should display dir_index information, although I could not find really much documentation, it's only mentioned in the manpage. > - Is there a better way to index the root fs than to boot off a live > CD? read-only mounting in single-user mode comes to mind, but then again I don't know if "e2fsck -D" is a safe thing to do with an ro-mounted volume. you could try it beforehand with a dummy-volume: # dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img bs=1M count=500 # losetup /dev/loop0 test.img # mkfs.ext3 /dev/loop0 # mount /dev/loop0 /mnt # copy-some-data-to-/mnt # mount -o remount,ro /mnt # e2fsck -D /dev/loop0 # mount -o remount,rw /mnt ....and verify that all data is correct (diff(1)!) (untested, keep you backups handy ;)) -- BOFH excuse #442: Trojan horse ran out of hay _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
