Ext3 users - Nov 2002 - How to hide .journal file

Hello,

  Maybe it's already FAQ but how to hide .journal file
on rootfs? I upgraded filesystems on one of my servers
from ext2 to ext3 and everything went smoothly.

  I'd like to avoid booting from alternative media because
server is in production. FS update done together with
server's kernel update.

  Thanks,

  Mindaugas

On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 08:55, Mindaugas Riauba wrote:
>   Maybe it's already FAQ but how to hide .journal file
> on rootfs? I upgraded filesystems on one of my servers
> from ext2 to ext3 and everything went smoothly.
>   I'd like to avoid booting from alternative media because
> server is in production. FS update done together with
> server's kernel update.
You can't shift the .journal file out of the way on a mounted
filesystem, so if it's the root filesystem that you're worried about,
you will _have_ to boot off another media (eg. rescue CD) in order to
hide that .journal.  Once you've done that, though, it's easy --- e2fsck
will do it automatically in current e2fsprogs.

Cheers,
 Stephen