[Discuss] turning off journaling on EXT3

[Michael Foltinek]

That part I'm not sure of. I vaguely recall reading something about
changing the size of your journal from the default to limit the amount
of space that it takes up, but I think that was in the context of when
you set up the filesystem for the first time.
Honestly, I'd be interested in hearing the results from your experiment :)

On 5/8/07, pw <p.willis at telus.net> wrote:
> Michael Foltinek wrote:
> > I can't see why it would be a problem. The journal data is written
> > elsewhere, so it's not like there will be holes in your data. You can
> > mount ext3 as ext2 (like if you boot off a liveCD) and the only
> > difference AFAIK is the lack of journaling; the data side is the same.
> >
>
>
> Will I get the space allocated for the journal back available
> in the file system?
>
> Peter
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