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njathan

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Registered: 2011-06-01

Posts: 18

[Solved] ^has_journal error for encrypted USB installation

Hi,

I am trying to install Arch on an encrypted USB stick, but i am facing a challenge in the very initial stages.
Its been advised that if installing arch on a USB stick, one should disable journaling. But the command to format to ext4 without journaling fails. Here is what i am doing

# cryptsetup -y -v luksFormat /dev/sda2
# cryptsetup open /dev/sda2 cryptroot

# mkfs.ext4 -O ^has_journal /dev/sda2

the mkfs.ext4 command above gives the following error:

/dev/sda2 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here

Instead, when i use the slightly modified version of the original command specified in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm … _with_LUKS, i get the following error:

mkfs -t ext4 -O ^has_journal /dev/mapper/cryptroot

Invalid filesystem option set: install.txt

Can you advise whats going wrong with the mkfs.ext4 command?

Last edited by njathan (2014-08-05 17:44:59)

njathan

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Registered: 2011-06-01

Posts: 18

Re: [Solved] ^has_journal error for encrypted USB installation

Any thoughts?

x15

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Registered: 2014-08-05

Posts: 1

Re: [Solved] ^has_journal error for encrypted USB installation

Hello All,

I have same problem installing the new (2014.08.01) iso to an old EeePC 4G.
I think I'll format a partition booting ubuntu live...

Cheers!

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: [Solved] ^has_journal error for encrypted USB installation

mkfs.ext4 -O "^has_journal" ...

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njathan

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Registered: 2011-06-01

Posts: 18

Re: [Solved] ^has_journal error for encrypted USB installation

Thanks alphaniner! The double quotes do the trick!

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: [Solved] ^has_journal error for encrypted USB installation

FYI, the quotes were needed because the '^' is interpreted specially by the shell. I think it's "caret substitution" but I'm not familiar with it at all.

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But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
-Lysander Spooner