That was the solution. I did not realize that you needed to recreate the initrd-xxx since there was one there already. Thanks for reiterating the proper procedure.
paulw
Message: 21 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 20:34:02 +0200 From: Michael Schwendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Unable to convert root file system to ext3 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:19:02 -0500, Paul F. Williams wrote:
> I recently upgraded a redhat system from 7.1 to 7.2 > and unfortunately must have missed the opportunity > to convert from ext2 to ext3 during the upgrade. > > Later I happened to notice that it still was using > ext2 so went through the steps to convert to ext3 > that I found on the internet. There seemded to be some > disagreement whether the root file system could be converted > while mounted or whether you needed to boot from the > 7.2 system cd and then convert. > > In any case, I originally ran the following command > while root was mounted. > > For the root file system > > /sbin/tune2fs -j /dev/ida/c0d0p8 > > /sbin/tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/cida/c0d0p8 > > Also, I changed the /etc/fstab to mount an ext3 file system. > > When the system boots it will only mount / as an ext2 file > system, but it does mount all the others as ext3.
Did you re-create your initrd after changing /etc/fstab to ext3?
If not, look in /boot and read "man mkinitrd".
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