ext3 journaling taking up HDD Space ?
Steven Stern
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Fri Apr 16 18:28:07 UTC 2004
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:15:50 -0500, "Matthew Benjamin" <msbenjamin at fedex.com>
wrote:
>It appears that you can do the following to changeback to ext2...
>
>disable it by changing your /etc/fstab entries back to ext2, and doing a
>clean shutdown. when you reboot, you're back to ext2.
>
>The only question now is how do I clean out those journal entries, and
>where are they stored?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Juan Carlos Inostroza [mailto:jci at tux.cl]
>Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 11:18 AM
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>Subject: Re: ext3 journaling taking up HDD Space ?
>
>
>On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 12:16, Matthew Benjamin wrote:
>> Has anyone noticed ext3 journaling FS taking using up HDD space over
>> time. And if so is there a way to clear it up. My hard drive is
>> loosing space fast, I've deleted log files and all that good stuff -
>> but that is only buying me time. Any advice.
>>
>
>Maybe formatting with a smaller block size. It happened me twice, until
>I switched to XFS.
>
check this link:
http://tinyurl.com/2bjmj
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=journal%2Bremove%2Bext3%2Bredhat&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=4UaL7.74%24NL5.22854701%40newssvr14.news.prodigy.com&rnum=1
--
Steve
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