I had done mke2fs on /dev/dasdb1. The thing that never occured to me was the 1st field of fstab. Instead of specifying the fs_spec for dasdb1 by /dev/dasdXY, it was specified there by label. For example, a few lines from my fstab:
LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/home /home ext2 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/var /var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/dasde1 swap swap defaults 0 0 I guess LABEL=blah way is a quick way to know which filesystem you are changing the mount options for, instead of looking at "df" output if you want /usr auto mounted ro but don't know off the top of your head which /dev/dasdXY it is. Anyway, the LABEL= was how rhsetup did me after formatting dasd partitions and specifying mount points etc. Helpful, I guess, but I didn't know where it got the label from or that it was significant, and I was slow to realize that the label was the source of my problems and not the changing ext3 to ext2 thing. Newbieness strikes again. Or do I still not have it right? ~Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Daniel, > >That seems a little strange to me, considering I've _never_ specified a >label parameter on any of my mke2fs commands. I really think something else >didn't go right. Perhaps you initially did a "mkde2fs /dev/dasdb" instead >of "/dev/dasdb1" ?? > >Mark Post > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 10:11 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: ext3 -> ext2 > > >I discovered my error... the problem wasn't with rebooting with the >fstab full of ext2's... the problem was when I had run mke2fs on my >/dev/dasdb1 I didn't add the home label -L /home. Everything's great >now, thanks! > >~ Daniel > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>08.04.2002 15:50:48 NAPISAL(A): >> >>>switch all the ext3 to ext2 in /etc/fstab, did so, and rebooted. Well, >>>when it came time for the file system integrety check linux was most >>>displeased. From the console I manually retyped fstab, changing the >>> >>I think, first time linux checked filesystem and then all will be fine. >>If linux will check filesystem in second boot, i was wrong :) >>
