From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:43:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks
Message-ID: <426ED20B.9070706@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050426155609.06e3ddcf.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>Mounting as ext2 is a useful technique for determining whether the fs is
>>>getting in the way.
>>
>>What's the preferred way to try to convert a root filesystem to a bigger
>>journal? Forcing "rootfstype=ext2" at boot and boot into single-user, and
>>then the appropriate magic tune2fs? Or what?
>>
> 
> 
> Gee, it's been ages.  umm,
> 
> - umount the fs
> - tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/whatever
> - fsck -fy                              (to clean up the now-orphaned journal inode)
> - tune2fs -j -J size=nblocks    (normally 4k blocks)
> - mount the fs
> 

I think this is overkill, but should of course be safe.

While you're doing this anyway, you might want to make sure you enable 
-O +dir_index and run fsck -D.

	-hpa