On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:56:32PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > On Saturday 03 January 2009 17:01:58 Martin MOKREJŠ wrote: > > > Still handy for recovering badly broken filesystems, I'd say. > > > > Me as well. How about improving you doc patch with some summary of > > this thread (although it is probably not over yet)? ;-) Definitely, > > a note that one can mount it as ext2 while read-only would be helpful > > when doing some forensics on the disk. > > Although make sure you _do_ mount it as read only because if you mount an ext3 > filesystem read/write as ext2 I've had it zap the journal entirely and then > you have to tune2fs -j the sucker to turn it back into ext3. > > Ext3 is... touchy. Um.... horse pucky: # mke2fs -q -t ext3 /dev/thunk/footest # debugfs -R features /dev/thunk/footest debugfs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype sparse_super large_file # mount -t ext2 /dev/thunk/footest /mnt # touch /mnt/foo # umount /mnt # debugfs -R features /dev/thunk/footest debugfs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype sparse_super large_file - Ted -- 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
