Ed Greshko wrote: > > lately i was trying to change the Journal Mode to data=journal in the > > fstab. Unxpected Result was on restart: the Filessystem is only > > readable! What did i miss ? > > Are you trying to do this on the root partition? yes > If so, I don't think > it is possible at boot time. If I recall correctly, you need to boot > from a rescue CD such that the file system is not mounted and then use > tune2fs to set up a journal. i was booting from the first FC5 CD, gone to rescue mode, than passed a tune2fs -j /dev/hda5 which resulted in " this filesystem has already a journal" , than passed a data=journal to the relevant line in the fstab. If i discovered this right, FC5 defaults to data=ordered which for me not the most secure mode. I want to reboot with reboot -f ;) regards, Frank