On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:15:50 -0500, "Matthew Benjamin" <msbenjamin@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxx] >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
