Hello, i got a problem after i switched from an in-filesystem journal to an external journal on my soft-raid5 + lvm2 +ext3 volume. The Procedure was: - umount the volume - fsck -fy /dev/vg/space - tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/vg/space - create a 400M extended partition on my fast disk (sda) - mke2fs -O journal_dev -L space-journal /dev/sda6 - tune2fs -o journal_data -j -J device=/dev/sda6 /dev/vg/space - mount the volume, everything seems ok - while moving some files around i noticed "attempt to write beyond end of device sda6" as well as "read-only filesystem" errors - umount the volume (clean) - reboot the system and removed the external journal partition to move it elsewhere here began my Main Problem: 1. tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/vg/space "fs has needs_recovery set, please fsck" 2. fsck complains about a wrong uuid of the journal dev when used with a newly created and i cant see how to force mke2fs to give it a particular uuid (the one of the old journal partition) so i cant fsck the volume 3. man tune2fs says to me that there is the -f switch for this kind of accidents, but it gives me the same "fs has needs_recovery set, please fsck" I dont think the fs should be needs_recovery and i dont get why tune2fs -f -O ^has_journal /dev/vg/space doesnt forcefully remove the flag like said in the manpage. I am running debian5, linux 2.6.26-1-686, tune2fs 1.41.3 Please someone share your wisedom greetings Felix Resch _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users