Re: ext3 problem on recover...

[Andreas Dilger <adilger turbolabs com>]

On Sep 27, 2001  16:14 -0400, Charles Duncan wrote:
> tune2fs 1.24a (02-Sep-2001)
> Creating journal inode:
> tune2fs: Permission denied
>         while trying to create journal file
> 
> if I do a "ls -l /.journal" I get:
> 
> 8225 -rw-------    1 root     root      8388608 Sep 26 14:55 /.journal
> 
> I am concerned that the journal file was created under 2.4.10
> 
> Can I delete the /.journal file and start over?

Yes.  You need "chattr -i /.journal" before "rm /.journal".

Cheers, Andreas
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