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<miicchhaaeell>Hi! I would like to read about and learn more about gnu hurd. How is the documentation on the website?
<damo22>see the topic
<miicchhaaeell>damo22 Thanks.
<gnucode>I'm going to try to set up the new ext2 journal on my /home partition.
<gnucode>hello friends!
<gnucode>I was able to resize /home by 8 MiB.
<nikolar>nice
<gnucode>since I run the Hurd on real hardware the journal-hint2.sh script doesn't work for me.
<nikolar>what is it supposed to do
<gnucode>it is supposed to add a the journal configuration data in the ext2 superblock.
<gnucode>Once that is written, then you can patch in the journal and start using it.
<nikolar>so mkfs doesn't do it?
<gnucode>no. I'm trying to use the newer libdiskfs journal for ext2fs.
<gnucode>mkfs doesn't write the journal hints by default, because they are non-standard.
<nikolar>right
<gnucode>I'll have to write an email asking Milos for help in writting the journal hints directly. without assuming an .img file.