Can you verify if the journal has the same block size as the fs? /not an ext3 expert > Afternoon, > > I've been trying to create a new ext3 that has an external journal. > I have two 500GB SATA drives (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb) that I'm > using for my experiments. I partitioned /dev/sda into a single > partition (/dev/sda1) and I partitioned /dev/sdb into two partitions, > /dev/sdb1 that is 1024M in size and /dev/sdb2 that is the remainder. > I want to create an ext3 file system on /dev/sda1 and use /dev/sdb1 > as an external journal. (BTW - I'm running the 2.6.28.7 kernal and > 1.41.4 for efs2progs). > > I've tried various commands and they all fail. What I'm currently > trying, > > mke2fs -O journal_dev /dev/sdb1 > mke2fs -t ext3 -O ^has_journal /dev/sdba1 > tune2fs -o journal_data -j -J device=/dev/sdb1 /dev/sda1 > > gives me an error at the very end: > > tune2fs: The ext2 superblock is corrupt > while trying to open journal on /dev/sdb1 > > Any ideas? > > TIA! > > Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Ext3-users mailing list > Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users > > _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
