ext filesystem without journal shows as "not clean" while being mounted
Issue
- If a ext file system has no journal, commands such as
tune2fsordumpe2fsshows the file system state asnot cleanwhile being mounted.
#tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/localvg-ext4 | grep "^Filesystem state"
Filesystem state: not clean
- Unmounting the file system reset the flag to
clean
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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