On Apr 24, 9:43 pm, ddavid wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to know the structure/contents of a .journal file, i.e. how
> exactly the .journal file looks like and what contents get written
> into it. I do not have a Linux File system installed and also googled
> on the net regarding the same was not able to find any such sample
> file explaining about .journal file.
An extension is just a hint of what the file might contain.
A .jpg needs not to be a valid JPG image file, for example.
You could try `file' (man 1 file), which is a well known UNIX utility
for determining the type of a file.

vippstar@gmail.com wrote:
> On Apr 24, 9:43 pm, ddavid wrote:
>> I wanted to know the structure/contents of a .journal file, i.e. how
>> exactly the .journal file looks like and what contents get written
>> into it. I do not have a Linux File system installed and also googled
>> on the net regarding the same was not able to find any such sample
>> file explaining about .journal file.
> An extension is just a hint of what the file might contain.
> A .jpg needs not to be a valid JPG image file, for example.
> You could try `file' (man 1 file), which is a well known UNIX utility
> for determining the type of a file.

I guess the OP is writing about a file called ".journal" (which my
system has as (/.journal) that apparently contains the
filesystem-journal for an ext3 file system (but I'm no expert on
GNU/Linux file systems, so this might not be 100% correct).

On my machine this file is somewhat 33MB in size, so I don't think it
would be easy to send, though...

Daniel

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