On Apr 08, 2009 01:40 -0700, Christian Kujau wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Christian Kujau wrote: > > 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? > > Hm, I was really hoping someone would comment on this, as I'm a) puzzled > as well, why the -force option does not work as expected and b) if this is > the right thing to do: Proabably the right thing to do. > --- 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); > > -- > Bruce Schneier knows the secret formula for Coca-Cola. > > _______________________________________________ > Ext3-users mailing list > Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html