Re: [PLUG] ext3 journal issues

[Glenn Kelley <glenn@typo3usa.com>]

bit nervous as it is their root partition :-(

the fsck is now giong for roughly 14 hours
still doing a ton of the ref count is 2 to 1 stuff

In short - no it has not completed...
thinking we could just umount - place new drive - and then go from there

  for them its an outage now .. well 15 or so hours in the making -  
just trying to think of a way around it...


thanks for the directions -


On Apr 13, 2009, at 2:33 PM, brent timothy saner wrote:

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> Glenn Kelley wrote:
>> i have a fairly large drive full of data that we need (well a client
>> does) and the drive on reboot forced a fsck
>>
>> could i just mount it as an ext2 vs. ext3 to grab the data?
>>
>
> did the fsck complete- is it persistent across reboots?
>
> and yes, you can totally do that. if all you need is the data, then  
> you
> can do what's outlined at
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/ref-guide/s1-filesystem-ext2-revert.html
>
> MAKE SURE IT'S UNMOUNTED FIRST. (although if it won't mount in the  
> first
> place...)
>
>
> #where foo = device node of your harddisk,
>
> tune2fs -O ^has_journal foo
>
> #then check filesystem just in case
>
> e2fsck -y foo
>
> #then mount it. the contents in ( ) may be necessary, they may not be
> depending on kernel options and version of mount, etc.
>
> mount (-t ext2) foo /mnt/bar
>
>
> #OPTIONAL: remove old journal
>
> rm -f /mnt/bar/.journal
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