On Friday 17 May 2002 10:15 pm, you wrote: > After successful transfer of all partitions to ext3, using tune2fs -j > /dev/hda?, I thought everything was OK, also for the root > partition. But its NOT! While having ext2 compiled into the kernel and > ext3 as a module, as with kernel-2.4.18.16, the root partition is > mounted as ext2, not ext3. This has been verified when rebooting after > problems with shutdown (especially with upgrading glibc etc) when the > root partition is uncleanly unmounted. How to resolve this, the fstab > entry is useless since it's on the not yet mounted / partition...? I > assume mounting of the root partition is taken care of by the kernel..
The filesystem the root partion uses _must_ be compiled in to the kernel itslef, not as a module. It will not work in the way you want if e3fs is a module. And you cant 'remount' as ext3 after boot as the device cant be unmounted.
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