Journaling is how file-systems save metadata so that data can be recovered in the event of corruption.
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Reiser4: completely disable journaling
How can journaling be completely disabled in a Reiser4 filesystem?
I don't see relevant options in mkfs.reiser4, nor in documentations.
The goal is to fit the FS into an SD card, where no journal is ...
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Wear leveling, Compression and Journaling Filesystem for SD cards [closed]
I'm looking for the ideal filesystem to place in my SD card holding the root of the operating system.
The FS must support journaling in order to provide better data safeness; compression is also ...
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Is it safe to disable ext4 journaling on root and home partitions?
On my ArchLinux laptop I have / and an ecryptfs encrypted /home partition formatted with ext4. Both contains importand (backuped) data.
Is it safe to disable ext4 journaling when partitions contains ...
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Linux fine tuning for Vertex 3 SSD
I've been reading about optimizations for SSD disks on Linux, there is lots of info out there although very confusing and most feel outdated so I'd be grateful if someone sheds some light on the ...
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CompactFlash write caching
A well-known characteristic of CompactFlash cards is that they do such things as write-leveling and caching to boost performance and longevity.
These characteristics make them fairly poor choices as ...
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delete files from usb (mac os journle)
I have a flash drive which is formated as mac osx extended journel. It has some data I want to remove some files from the flash drive, I dont have access to Mac OS how can I delete files from my flash ...
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Why does a journal filesystem need to check disk?
After I got the BSOD on my Windows 7 computer, I restarted my computer to find it asking me to do a disk check. I did other things in the meantime but it seemed like it took a few minutes.
If the ...
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How to see recent file changes on ext3 file system?
Looks like I don't understand the journaling facilities of ext3fs.
I use a Linux server system with a lot of other users having sudo rights. The problem is that often config files are getting changed ...
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SSD: NTFS vs EXT4
Always when I read about SSD usage under Linux, the advice is to disable journalling in Ext4 (or use Ext2), since it's too bad for your SSD. But in all articles about SSD tweaks for Windows, I never ...
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Is there a way in Windows 7 to disable “journaling”?
C:\$extend\$Usn.Jrnl:$J:$data
Here is a picture finally. The large strip in the center of the top band is the largest chunk, in the other, grey areas are the various clusters with it.
On the ...
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When is the data in the journal written to the disk?
(1) mentions that "With a journal the file is first written to the journal, punch-in, and then the journal writes the file to disk when ready. Once it has successfully written to the disk, it is ...
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USN Journal entries 700,000 lines in Notepad - BUILTIN Administrator cannot delete
I don't really understand much, but have been having a LOT of problems. Zero-filling / low-level formatting my hard drive doesn't seem to touch the USN Journal entries on there (I've tried DBAN, ...
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Clearing the NTFS Journals in Vista
I'm using Vista and have several NTFS drives.
Is there any way I can clear the journals and disable further journaling?
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On Mac OS X, how can I disable journaling on shutdown and reenable it on boot?
The why: I want to share a home partition with Ubuntu, but I don't want to give up journaling while booted into Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) if I don't have to.
What I've figured out:
The commands I want ...
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Is it possible to backup to an Airport Disk formatted with journaling?
Is it possible make time machine backups to an disk plugged into an Airport Extreme base station when the disk is formatted as Mac OS Extended Journaled?
I've tried formatting the disk in this way, ...
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Does an external hard drive or USB thumb drive use a journaling file system?
It was said that nowadays, common file systems such as NTFS and HFS+ use a journaling mechanism so that when power is cut out or if there is a power outage, the hard drive is still in good shape and ...
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Will these instructions work when turning of journaling on an ext4 SSD?
I have an Acer Aspire One with an SSD for storage. I recently installed Ubuntu on it and chose ext4 for my filesystem. Then I read that journaling on an SSD isn't the best idea, so I will try to ...
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Filesystem to quickly get recent modifications
I've got relatively big filesystem (ext4) with lots of small files and I'd like to backup it. Making full backups often is not feasible to me so I want to have a way to make differential/incremental ...
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Open Source / Free alternatives to “The Journal” software? [closed]
I tried "The Journal" by DavidRM, and it is a great software.
Unfortunately, it is not free.
What are some close opensource or free alternatives, for Linux/Windows ?
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How do I look at disk journals under OS X?
About 2000 files just turned up missing on my Mac, with no clues as to where they went or how they were deleted. I have disk journaling enabled, so I'd like to look at the journals. Hopefully, ...
