viewing ext3 journal

Zach Brown zab at zabbo.net
Wed Jun 28 22:50:05 UTC 2006


> Should it be possible to use JFS tools on ext3 filesystem?

No.  Stephen was referring to the logdump command available from
e2fsprog's debugfs program.  Like so:

# debugfs -R 'logdump /tmp/journal-dump.txt' /dev/hda1
debugfs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)

# head -4 /tmp/journal-dump.txt
Journal starts at block 23374, transaction 54065
Found expected sequence 54065, type 1 (descriptor block) at block 23374
Found expected sequence 54065, type 2 (commit block) at block 23376
Found expected sequence 54066, type 1 (descriptor block) at block 23377

- z




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