OK, here's a patch that should allow mke2fs -S to work. It should be
applied against the e2fsprogs 1.41.4.
Sorry for the delay in getting this to you; things have been crazy
busy on my end.
- Ted
commit a620baddee647faf42c49ee2e04ee3f667149d68
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Mar 31 07:42:24 2009 -0400
mke2fs: Don't try to create the journal in super-only mode
Since we aren't initializing the inode table, creating the journal
will just fail.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.c b/misc/mke2fs.c
index e69e5ce..4f50ffa 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.c
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.c
@@ -2079,6 +2079,12 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[])
EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_HAS_JOURNAL)) {
journal_blocks = figure_journal_size(journal_size, fs);
+ if (super_only) {
+ printf(_("Skipping journal creation in super-only mode\n"));
+ fs->super->s_journal_inum = EXT2_JOURNAL_INO;
+ goto no_journal;
+ }
+
if (!journal_blocks) {
fs->super->s_feature_compat &=
~EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_HAS_JOURNAL;
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