On 6/25/13 3:13 AM, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > Hi, > > I have a system with an ext4 filesystem with its journal on an other > device (an SSD). > Now this SSD dropped of the sata bus so the filesystem went r/o. > I would like to remove the journal but it says it can't because > needs_check is set. What does it actually say? there is no needs_check flag AFAIK. > I can't run fsck because the journal is not > reachable. Is there any way to solve this? I understand I lost any > pending changes in the journal. Can you use debugfs to change the state of the fs so that it allows you to do this? Or maybe specifying a zero-filled file as the external journal would allow fsck to proceed. -Eric > > regards > > -- > www.vanheusden.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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