similar to: Question about using ext3 in root partition

Hi all, Today I read the post (Andrew Morton) and knew that there are three options for ext3 (never know before :-)) I would like to ask where the documentation is or how I can pass to the mount command to use the other two (now I saw it is in the data ordered mode) Thank you very much indeed. Steve ===== S.KIEU _____________________________________________________________________________

According to this: http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/ext3/why.html ext3 is forward and backward compatible with ext2... Any user who wishes to un-journal a file system can do so easily... I am assuming un-journalling is the equivalent of converting it to ext2. How do you do this? I haven't been able to find anything. The reason I want to do this is so I can modify my

Hi, I just converted all my hard disk filesystems from ext2 to ext3. This worked perfectly fine for all non-root fs, but I am having trouble converting the root fs, too. Here's what I did: 1. rebuilt my kernel (2.4.20, x86) with ext3 support linked in statically - no module. 2. Added a journal file to my root fs using 'tune2fs -j'. 3. Added 'rootfstype=ext3' to the

Hi all, I am testing new kernel on a mips machine (64 bits for kernel, 32 bits userland) and I found a problem when mounting the root file system. It is an ext3 file system that is correctly mounted as read only. While booting the system remount the file system as read/write and keep starting all daemons. Moving from 2.6.26 to 2.6.30 kernel, I get this error while remounting the file system

Hi all, I was trying to mount root-partition which is ext3 partition with noatime and ro option. I included "ro" in the kernel command line But for mounting it with "noatime" option when I searched for some solution I came across a patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/5/38 But after applying this patch and including option "noatime" in

I just came back after being out for the evening. Apparently there was a power failure long enough to discharge the UPS completely on my Linux box. After powering back up, I received notice that the / filesystem needed "manual fsck"ing. I booted off CD and attempted to fsck. Unfortunately, everything I've tried has proved futile and I'm _desperate_ for some help. I've

Hello, I have 2 boxes with 1.5TB storage with ext3 fs, and the kernel is 2.6.11.8. I'm using E2fsprogs 1.37 for FS creation. And, Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) There are 2 scenarios: 1. All SATA drives, RAID5 2. All PATA drives, RAID5 and wrapped in log volumes. I'm having lots of issues with fsck. I did search, but somehow not getting the right information. needs_recovery

I've turned my root filesystem to ext3 and also changed the filesystem type in /etc/fstab. I initiated a powerfailure and watched booting. But the kernel mounted root filesystem first read only as ext2 and does than a fsck for ext2. The over partition, /boot and /vol1 (also ext3), are handled as ext3. After booting all partitions, also /, were mounted as ext3. But why root is checked as ext2?

When I first installed ext3, it worked as expected. After a crash, journals would be played, and no fsck. Now, every crash causes an fsck, just like it were a regular ext2, even though / has a journal and is being mounted as ext3. Some fs info for / Filesystem features: has_journal filetype sparse_super Filesystem state: not clean Errors behavior: Continue Some fs info for

Is there a reason why an ext3 root partition cannot be copied to an alternate partition using the "dd" command? The dd is copying the mounted root partition into an alternate partition that is not mounted. The dd returns success, but the fsck on that partition fails with errors as follows: ----------------- fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) /dev/Active_Update/root2: recovering journal

Hello, I converted my / partition to ext3 from ext2 today, and I'm using kernel 2.4.13+ext3 patch I used tune2fs -j and set the filesystem to auto in fstab, and compiled ext2 as well as ext3 in the kernel Upon rebooting, I tried df -hT to see if it had worked, and to my surprise it didn't list my root partition dmesg say it's fine (and btw everything works fine) kjournald

Hello, I search through but I didn't find a clear answer about it. I have a rh 6.2 based box where I made many steps of upgrades. Some of them, not being available the binary rpm glibc 2.1 based, I obtained using src.rpm from rh 7.2 and then runnig #rpm --rebuild package.src.rpm and then installing the generated binary: great sw rpm!!! My rpm version is 4.0.2-6x for both rpm, rpm-devel,

Hi In our office environment few servers mostly database servers and yesterday it happened for one application server(first time) the partion is getting "read only". I was checking the archives, found may be similar kind of issues in the 2007-July archives. But how it has been solved if someone describes me that will be really helpful. In our case, just at the problem started found

I'm using the ext3-patched version of Linux 2.4.13 (the patch from Andrew Morton's UOW site). I compiled both ext3 and ext2 into the kernel. I've also done "tune2fs -j /dev/hda3" and changed /etc/fstab to ext3. However, when I boot up, the filesystem still gets mounted as ext2. I've been trying to figure out why for many days now.. any ideas? Here's my setup:

Hi I am running a PC under Linux SuSE 7.2 with kernel 2.4.18, self compiled. I changed some days ago the partition of my second HD from ext2 to ext3 with the help of tune2fs -j /dev/hdb2 and everything was running OK. Today, I had a problem with a frozen display and I had to reboot the box cold. During the corresponding forced check I got the following messages: Quote --------- /dev/hdb2: reading

Hi there, I'm new to ext3, so I hope you won't find my question to be stupid. I also hope this isn't the 1,000,000th time someone posts it. My problem is the following: I converted my ext2 systems to ext3 using tune2fs -j /dev/sda2 (or 5 for my /home, 2 is my root) Then I modified fstab and put ext3 for each. After a reboot, the mount command says they are mounted as ext3. But when I

Hi! I'm justing in the process of setting up a new fileserver for our company. I'm installing CentOS 5.3 (64 bit) on it. One of the "problems" with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. Now my experience with our current fileserver is that a 0.5TB ext3 filesystem needs approx half an hour to complete (and kicks in

Hi there, I'm running software raid 1 across two 60GB IDE drives and booting off the raid device. The raid device holds an ext3 filesystem. Each drive is configured as a master on its own bus. The system is redhat 7.2, stock kernel 2.4.9-31smp. The hardware platform is a Dell precision dual 2Ghz P4 system with 1G of memory. I have two of these systems, both configured identitically.

Is there a document anywhere offering guidance on the optimum use of ext3 filesystems? Googling shows nothing useful and the Linux ext3 FAQ is not very forthcoming. I'm particularly interested in: 1. The effect on performance of large numbers of (generally) small files One of my ext3 filesystems has 750K files on a 36GB disk, and backup with tar takes forever. Even 'find /fs -type

Can anyone comment on whether or not it is possible to successfully disable the journal of an ext3 root file system prior to reboot? My application is to try and make sure there is no journal prior to installing and rebooting into a system which does not support ext3. I know that as long as the root is cleanly remounted r/o with no journal updates pending, this will be compatible. I'm