On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Felix Resch wrote:
> Thouh i am still unclear about the semantics of the 'force' flag of
> tune2fs.
Hm, I never had to forcefully remove a journal (yet), but from reading the
manpage I'd indeed expect to get this removed even if the filesystem is in
error. The attached patch to e2fsprogs (latest git) makes tune2fs removing
the journal when "-f" is supplied. And it seems to work so far:
http://nerdbynature.de/bits/tune2fs/
Comments?
Christian.
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--- e2fsprogs-git/misc/tune2fs.c.ORIG 2009-04-02 22:40:58.740218188 +0200
+++ e2fsprogs-git/misc/tune2fs.c 2009-04-02 22:42:37.221830335 +0200
@@ -374,8 +374,8 @@ static void update_feature_set(ext2_fils
"read-only.\n"), stderr);
exit(1);
}
- if (sb->s_feature_incompat &
- EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER) {
+ if ((sb->s_feature_incompat &
+ EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER) && (!f_flag)) {
fputs(_("The needs_recovery flag is set. "
"Please run e2fsck before clearing\n"
"the has_journal flag.\n"), stderr);
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