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Re: [opensuse-factory] ext3 external journal impossible?
  • From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:18:36 +0100
  • Message-id: <200611261118.36525.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Sunday 26 November 2006 11:06, Frank-Michael Fischer wrote:
> Anybody an idea why (unlike with xfs or reiserfs) I could not manage to
> make an ext3 filesystem with external journal.
> After "mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -O /dev/sda5 /dev/hda7" I get: "Unvollständige
> Dateisystem-Option gesetzt: /dev/sda5"

Did you create the journal device first, as the man page says?

If you want to have the file system on /dev/sda7 and the journal on /dev/sda5,
you would do

mkfs.ext3 -O journal_dev /dev/sda5

Then you can do

mkfs.ext3 -j -J device=/dev/sda5 /dev/sda7
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