On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 07:31:08 -0500 "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote: > > > I've had good luck cloning my systems to and from reiserfs. xfs, > etc., > > but I can't seem to slay the ext3 dragon. After cloning and > altering > > the /etc/fstab for my root and boot fs and the usual work with > lilo, I > > can boot but the root fs remains read only; all attempts to > remount it > > rw fail. > > > > Any clues? > > > > Perhaps someone could send me a sample fstab entry for the root > fs; > > maybe that's where I'm going astray. > > > > I'm on kernel 2.4.13. mke2fs -j and tune2fs and mount work as > > advertised. > > > > > > Did you patch your kernel w/ the ext3 patch? If not, try > 2.4.15-pre6. > If you have converted your filesystem to ext3 (only requires running > tune2fs -j against your ext2 filesystem), all you need is to change > the > ext2 to ext3 in fstab. Couldn't be easier. > Thanks, David 1) My kernel does have complete ext3 support (/proc/filesystems is ok). I tried 2.4.15-pre6 (I think it was pre6), but some of the compiles failed, so I will wait until .15 final comes out. I wasn't really interested in pursuing why the compiles failed. 2) My current filesystem is reiserfs, so tune2fs won't help. I did use tune2fs to turn off interval fsck on the new filesystems, however. 3) The real problem, as I suspected, was my fstab entry. I fixed it up like in the following post (Kurt), and now my system works just fine. I just need to copy over my sylpheed mail directory again before cutting over. Thanks Kurt for the fstab sample. That did the trick. -- Collins Richey Denver Area gentoo_rc6 xfce+sylpheed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
