journal recovery

[Ed Jabbour]

On Sat February 11 2006 12:18 pm, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> I've noticed that when running:
>  ~ # file -s /dev/hda3
> /dev/hda3: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 file system data (needs journal recovery)
> I thought that on an ext3 file system, this would happen during a
> reboot.  There have been several power outages in this area and I've had
> this system power-down. Now I'm getting "needs journal recovery". I've
> googled with no luck, how do I force recovery?

I hadn't noticed any file corruption, but thought that, well, if it needs 
recovery, then it does.  So, booted off my handy Knoppix disk and ran 
fsck.ext3 on hda6 (home)  and 7 (root) - no errors.  Rebooted into Gentoo.  
For both home and root, I got, "It's been 49,710 days since last mount, 
check forced."  (136 years?)  No errors.  file -s still shows "journal needs 
recovery."  I think it's just some artifact with no relation to any reality.

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