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Deepak, Add some discussions on journal. Then it would be the full coverage of filesystems.
great post indeed!! (y)
About Journaling:
If a system crashes, sometimes the loss of data occurs. Files written (created or modified), during a system crash, can be corrupted if not closed when the system shuts down. Using a journal allows data recovery of files and the data within it.
What occurs during the journaling process is that a user submits a change to a file. The first thing the file system does is to mark the changes in a 'journal', or a separate file used specifically for journaling.
There are three types of Journaling: writeback, ordered and data.
1. Writeback
Here, only the metadata is journaled and data is written to the file on the disk. In a crash, the file system is recoverable, but the physical data can be corrupted. File system recovery is the worst, but the performance is the best.
2. Ordered (default)
This mode is the reverse of writeback. The physical data is written first before the metadata is journaled. The ordered mode allows the data and file system to be uncorrupted if a system crashes before the journal is written. File system recovery is medial.
3. Data
In the data mode, the metadata and file contents are journaled. System performance can be poorer than the other two modes, but the fault tolerance is much better.
good work. its good to expalin more examples with practicals on .bash_profie file. much more info of journaling feature.
Dear All,
Is it possible to reduce size of "/var"(LVM) mount point which is mounted on a running Linux machine ?
Please explain the detailed process…
Thanks in advanced !!!!
Hi MohiT,
yes it's possible, df -h /var
1. umount /var
2. e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg_name-LogVol00
3. resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg_name-LogVol00 10G (reduce size 10G)
4. lvreduce -L 10G /dev/mapper/vg_name-LogVol00
5. e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg_name-LogVol00
Mount the file system and verify its size.
mount /home
Hopefully will help you!