Ext3 users - Feb 2002 - partiton resizing question

The hard disk in my server/gateway started developing bad sectors and making 
very strange noises the other day..  anyway i got a new drive and copied over 
the partiton containing linux (ext3) onto the new drive using norton ghost 
which resized it from 500 odd Megabytes in size to 20 Gigabytes, the new 
drive works great but i have a few concerns since ghost knows nothing of 
ext3..

since the size of the partition has changed, will i need to recreate the ext3 
journal? If so how do i do it? 

if yes to the above question then will mounting the partition as ext3 with an 
incorrect journal do any damage? i had to do this once to change fstab.

On Feb 07, 2002  23:50 +0000, James Smaldon wrote:
> The hard disk in my server/gateway started developing bad sectors and
making
> very strange noises the other day..  anyway i got a new drive and copied
over
> the partiton containing linux (ext3) onto the new drive using norton ghost 
> which resized it from 500 odd Megabytes in size to 20 Gigabytes, the new 
> drive works great but i have a few concerns since ghost knows nothing of 
> ext3..
> 
> since the size of the partition has changed, will i need to recreate the
> ext3 journal? If so how do i do it? 
It depends on how ghost copied it over.  You can just run e2fsck -f on it
to start with.  It will recover the journal and report the size of the fs
for you.  The journal is just a file, so it might all be OK.
> if yes to the above question then will mounting the partition as ext3 with
an
> incorrect journal do any damage? i had to do this once to change fstab.
Yes, but we try hard not to let that happen.  Best to do e2fsck -f.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/