[PLUG] ext3 journal fixable?

[Derek Loree]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 21:19, David Cornelius (linux) wrote:
> After being forced to power down my RedHat Linux 8.0 box without doing a
> proper halt or reboot, the system comes back up and naturally starts checking
> the filesystems.  The first 3 partitions are fine, but I get an error on the
> 4th:
> 
> fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while
> checking ext3 journal for /home
> 
> All the stuff I've read so far on ext3 is just praising its stability--with
> few clues on how to fix a journal file.
> 
> Can this be fixed?  Any hints would be wonderful!

I haven't tried it, but it seems like it should work if you mount it as
ext2, then delete the .journal file, then run "tune2fs -j
/dev/devicename" to remake the journal.

Good Luck,

Derek Loree