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Hi all, I'm trying to resize a journal on my root filesystem. This is Ext3, kernel 2.4.19, latest e2fsprogs + htree patch. I've remounted my root filesystem as ext2, but still when I 'tune2fs -O ^has_journal' I get ---- The has_journal flag may only be cleared when the filesystem is unmounted or mounted read-only. ---- So, how can I increase the size of the journal? I

I'm trying to use journalled data mode for my root file system. I added 'rootflags=data=journal' to my menu.lst (I'm using GRUB), and see in dmesg: ---- kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with journal data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 124k freed Adding Swap: 1052248k swap-space (priority

Just looking through the 2.4.20pre changelogs, I see there's been a bunch of Ext3 patches since 2.4.19. I'm keen to take advantage of any bug fixes and performance improvements, but am nervous about using 2.4.20 until it's completed its release cycle. Is there any way to get a patch just containing the Ext3 changes? Are there any changes since 2.4.20 that are very important, either

Over the last two days we've been seeing a fair bit of this: ---- # ls -laR > /dev/null ... ls: ./server2/b/user/bxyz/392.: Input/output error ---- This is with the latest htree patches applied to 2.4.19, and latest e2fsprogs-test, on a dual AMD system, with 5x73GB SCSI drives on a MegaRAID controller. We're using the gcc 2.96 that comes with RH7.3. esfsck shows "Inodes that