On Nov 24, 2004 19:52 +0100, jehan.procaccia wrote: > Is it possible to externalize the journal of an already existing > (journal inside) ext3 FS ? > > Here's what I did to create a new FS with external journal for > /dev/emcpowerl2 on /dev/emcpowerl2 > mke2fs -O journal_dev /dev/sda10 > mke2fs -J device=/dev/sda10 /dev/emcpowerl2 > it works perfectly , but can I do the same whitout reformating the > original FS; /dev/emcpowerl1 which is in production for exemple Use "tune2fs -O ^has_journal" on unmounted filesystem to remove the existing journal. Then "tune2fs -O has_journal -J device=/dev/sda10" to add the journal to the new device (unmounted also of course). Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://members.shaw.ca/adilger/ http://members.shaw.ca/golinux/
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