On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 02:34:33AM -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: > On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 19:09 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > > Editing /etc/fstab on a laptop and comparing dmesg between boots shows > > no change to how the ext4 filesystem is mounted. > > > > As in it's mounted ext4 and not ext3? I didn't check the logs..
Yes, dmesg showed me it is mounted ext4 anyway. I don't trust /etc/mtab. > > I suggest that /etc/mtab is created from /etc/fstab, and the root > > filesystem was mounted by initrd before /etc/fstab is available, and > > that /etc/fstab is ineffective. > > > > I thought dracut would need to regenerate the initrd to pickup the new > fstab settings before this would take effect. I've generated an image > with the fix suggested in 11558 and the resulting image displays ext4 > when viewing mount's output. Is this a bug in mount? If you mean mount with no arguments, all this does is to read /etc/mtab, and /etc/mtab is maintained by mount. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
