On Sunday 04 January 2009, Robert Hancock wrote: > I agree, there should be a way to force it to mount "really read only" > so it doesn't try to replay the journal. That might require just > ignoring the journal content, which may result in the FS appearing > corrupt, but for recovery/forensics purposes that seems better than > nothing.. For forensics you ALWAYS get a copy of the full disk first, which you set read only with blockdev --setro /dev/$MYDISK. You then restore from this copy. Best Regard Ingo Oeser, been there, done that -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html