/.journal ... whazzat?

[Nathan England]

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On the other hand, I bet if you deleted that file (move it somewhere else=
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where you can retrieve it later) everything will be okay. You shouldn't b=
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able to see the journal file. But 33 mb is about right, that's what my fi=
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systems showed as being used before I started dumping stuff on them.



Am 20 Freitag, Dezember 2002 11:23 schrieb Lynn David Newton:
> I just discovered a 33MB file in my root directory
> named /.journal, dated March 26 of this year, which
> would have been about the time I upgraded to RH 7.2
> (from 7.1) which is probably also the time I converted
> to ext3 filesystems. I'm guessing this file is some
> sort of object that keeps the now-journaled filesystem
> in order, but I don't know that. Can someone identify
> this file for me and give a high-level explanation of
> what it does?
>
> If it's what it appears to be, that's a pretty hefty
> piece of disk size to sacrifice to ext3. Wouldn't want
> to live without jfs, though.
>
> There is no such file in /home, which is mounted and
> also type ext3, so I suppose if this thing is
> journaling overhead, it must be designed to handle all
> slices on the local system. (That's a question in the
> form of a hypothesis.)
>
> Inquiring minds want to know.

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