Still more mystery. The partition was a fat32 partition. /proc/mounts is the same as mount's output, and makes no mention of part4, which is the partition in question.
Spencer On Saturday 11 May 2002 06:01 pm, Paul Sack wrote: > Today at 5:51pm, Spencer Ogden expounded: > > ++ So I decided to take an old partition, delte all of its files and make > it an ++ ext3 partition. Is there something I am missing? I earsed > everything then did ++ a `mkfs -t ext [thedevice]`. When I try to mount > this partition it says it is ++ already mounted, and can't be mounted again > or the directory I am mounting to ++ is busy. Now the directyor is brand > new and empty, and the partition isn't ++ listed when I do `mount`, what > gives? > > First, see http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html > > ext2 and ext3 are compatible with each other. Meaning that you don't have > to make a completely new filesystem if you want to switch between them. > (You can keep all of your files.) > > To convert an ext2 paritition to an ext3 partition, just run ``tune2fs -j > /dev/hdXX''. Then fix fstab. > > You don't delete all the files in a partition to change the filesystem. > You just unmount it and format it. Is /etc/mtab on this partition? This > could be why mount is giving you the wrong result. You can also cat > /proc/mounts. > > -Paul _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
