What is /.journal?

[mylar]

I don't know a heck of a lot about it but are you using an ext3 type
filesystem under rh8 ?? It probably has to do with the filesystem
journaling. ext3 is a journalled filesystem. It might need that  to
recover in the event a filesystem gets corrupted.

mylar
 

On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 15:26, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> It's a fairly Large file created when I upgraded to RH v8.0 from 7.0 in
> the root directory.
> 
> I don't see anything attached to it with fuser, but it is also
> un-removable...
> 
> Oh, and to Rick et al. Merry Christmas and thanks for being there when I
> need help.