From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 21 05:59:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 817F9A95 for ; Tue, 21 May 2013 05:59:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam.gh1986@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lb0-f177.google.com (mail-lb0-f177.google.com [209.85.217.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101531AE for ; Tue, 21 May 2013 05:59:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f177.google.com with SMTP id o10so333421lbi.22 for ; Mon, 20 May 2013 22:59:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=1KMh5Z2aAqAwb7APWV0bSk8S7Hhaa1Cf+jWUk6p/XbE=; b=yfNii76CYvLbEmWihumZhAZ2sd6y/P7Xg84C/bgZ7SdKmfEosgVHXg5cCUigk6GyB6 YKHMxx7LI505OsCrFm+XRYQn//7vwZ1mWE4L4BZMEM0qGe5MQodj1wlvpD6jWKmi3gMw QOve1qCIAung3bQu/sAH6pdOQv+1f0vf6aUVqHkRls3XRuuKOjQiV8gFkxUVmr6W1mNO KWUhpUHjWIOUyodmkyEvdlmVarG9YF7wGwyH9DTk44x3Ursm+FifXFj2CGMQFTuy0p2C 3lDUgG/UMFFL/O5Yi+fs4cE2WzRW6X009ZMXv6QjDQ2a3NyKDAEX1y55ZHhv25SC+93T CBSA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.162.40 with SMTP id xx8mr702799lbb.30.1369115994494; Mon, 20 May 2013 22:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.128.138 with HTTP; Mon, 20 May 2013 22:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 10:29:54 +0430 Message-ID: Subject: setup journaling for root partition From: s m To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 05:59:56 -0000 hello everybody i want to setup a journal partition for my root partition. but i do not know how to do that. in FreeBSD handbook, it is done in single user mode, unmount the desired partition and assign the journal partition to it. i test this procedure and it is done for /usr partition but for root partition, it can not be unmount in single user mode. i try to do it in fixiit mode, but i can not load gjournal. do i use gpart to partitioning my system and enable journaling for root partition? isn't there any way to setup journaling for my existing root partition? which command should be used (or is better to used) to enable journaling? tunefs, gjournal or newfs? please help me to setup a journal partition for my root. thanks in advance SAM