/.journal ... whazzat?

Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:30:14 -0600 (CST)

> 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 I remember right, if you create an ext3 filesystem on a mounted 
partition, it creates the .journal entry.  if you create it on an 
unmounted partition, it doesnt.  I know Im runnning all ext3 that I 
created on unmounted partions and I have no .journal files anywhere.  This 
might explain why you have the .journal for some but not all ext3 
partiions.

david

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