On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 11:59 -0500, lmn40227 wrote: > If I am making a mistake, or there is a better way to do this, then I > would greatly appreciate any advise. > Depends which filing system you're using. ext3 probably is adversely affected by bad blocks in the journal but ext4, which checksums journal blocks, should detect them. Personally, I wouldn't try disabling journalling. In any case, its only makes a difference if there were files open and being written to at the time of the crash. If you've successfully booted since then, the journal will have been used during start-up so disabling it becomes somewhat moot. That said, the easiest way of disabling it is to change the partition entries in /etc/fstab to ext2. At present its a case of 'you pays your money and takes your choice' between the two because each has minor gotchas not shared by the other. My boxes currently use ext2 for /boot and a mix of ext3 and ext4 for the other partitions (I keep /home in a separate partition for faster upgrades and also have an encrypted partition). I'm not planning to change this until Fedora 18, when I'll think about moving to btrs. Martin
