commit 5fe2bd60844cfe5d805e62a4316afaa5cd9d7c83
Author: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 20 20:18:41 2014 -0500

    tune2fs: allow removal of dirty journal with two "-f" options
    
    Jim pointed out that "tune2fs -f -O ^has_journal" won't remove the
    journal if the needs_recovery flag is set; the manpage seems to indicate
    that it should.  And if you've lost an external journal and can no longer
    replay it, how should one proceed?
    
    Change tune2fs so that two "-f" options will allow removal of a dirty
    journal from a filesystem, even if the filesystem needs recovery.
    
    e2fsck can then do its best to pick up the pieces.
    
    Addresses-Debian-Bug: #559301
    
    Reported-by: Jim Faulkner <james.faulkner@yale.edu>
    Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Index: e2fsprogs-1.42.9/misc/tune2fs.8.in
===================================================================
--- e2fsprogs-1.42.9.orig/misc/tune2fs.8.in
+++ e2fsprogs-1.42.9/misc/tune2fs.8.in
@@ -248,7 +248,10 @@ option is useful when removing the 
 filesystem feature from a filesystem which has 
 an external journal (or is corrupted
 such that it appears to have an external journal), but that 
-external journal is not available.   
+external journal is not available.   If the filesystem appears to require
+journal replay, the
+.B \-f
+flag must be specified twice to proceed.
 .sp
 .B WARNING:
 Removing an external journal from a filesystem which was not cleanly unmounted
Index: e2fsprogs-1.42.9/misc/tune2fs.c
===================================================================
--- e2fsprogs-1.42.9.orig/misc/tune2fs.c
+++ e2fsprogs-1.42.9/misc/tune2fs.c
@@ -436,8 +436,9 @@ static int update_feature_set(ext2_filsy
 				"read-only.\n"), stderr);
 			return 1;
 		}
-		if (sb->s_feature_incompat &
-		    EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER) {
+		if ((sb->s_feature_incompat &
+		    EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER) &&
+		    f_flag < 2) {
 			fputs(_("The needs_recovery flag is set.  "
 				"Please run e2fsck before clearing\n"
 				"the has_journal flag.\n"), stderr);
@@ -929,7 +930,7 @@ static void parse_tune2fs_options(int ar
 			open_flag |= EXT2_FLAG_RW;
 			break;
 		case 'f': /* Force */
-			f_flag = 1;
+			f_flag++;
 			break;
 		case 'g':
 			resgid = strtoul(optarg, &tmp, 0);