Re: document ext3 requirements

[Ingo Oeser]

On Sunday 04 January 2009, Robert Hancock wrote:
> I agree, there should be a way to force it to mount "really read only" 
> so it doesn't try to replay the journal. That might require just 
> ignoring the journal content, which may result in the FS appearing 
> corrupt, but for recovery/forensics purposes that seems better than 
> nothing..

For forensics you ALWAYS get a copy of the full disk first, 
which you set read only with blockdev --setro /dev/$MYDISK.

You then restore from this copy.


Best Regard

Ingo Oeser, been there, done that
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