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From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: where is the journal kept?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:58:44 +0400
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To: Payal Rathod <payal-reiserfs@scriptkitchen.com>
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Hello

Payal Rathod wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 04:25:37PM +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
> 
>>Each journaling filesystem keeps its journal by its own way.
>>In reiserfs by default journal is kept in statically pre-allocated on mkfs 
>>time 8192 blocks (4096 bytes each) starting from 18-th block.
> 
> 
> Is it kept in some sort of file? 

No. That area of filesystem does not belong to any files stored on that filesystem.
You can read it from device directly: dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=4096 count=8192.
I am not sure that it can be of any interest, because you will see just binary data.

I mean can I see the file contents
> using normal UNIX tools? If yes how do I do it?
> 
You can use
debugreiserfs -j /dev/hda1 /dev/hda1
to see journal content. This will decode binary data into human readable form.

> With warm regards,
> -Payal
> 
>