howto: enabling journaling on softupdates

Conrad J. Sabatier conrads at cox.net
Thu Sep 1 10:09:22 UTC 2011


On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:02:38 +0200
"Hartmann, O." <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> ... and here I am again with SU+J on my box ;-)
> 
> Tomorrow, I will perform this step on all servers. I guess it's a
> "worth having".

Most definitely.  When rebooting after a forced power-down (due to that
darned flash plugin locking up my machine), seeing the "/ was not
properly dismounted" message, and fsck being automatically invoked,
repair with SU+J takes only seconds.  Marvelous!

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier
conrads at cox.net


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