Greetings! I've just moved all the filesystems in my box to ext3... or at least, I thought I had...
This is a box I've just built to test a few things on quickly.. however, I thought I'd set up ext3 quickly first, because I've only done it a few times before and a bit of practice never hurts.... What I've done is this: A) Recompiled kernel, making sure the ext3 support is compiled straigh into the kernel, not as a module B) run tune2fs on the partitions to create the journal, edited /etc/fstab to set all fstypes to 'auto', rebooted If I now run mount, I get this (trimed for brevity): [root@bigmark /root]# mount /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda2 on /boot type ext3 (rw) this information is the same as in mtab: [root@bigmark /root]# cat /etc/mtab /dev/sda6 / ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/sda2 /boot ext3 rw 0 0 however, looking at /proc/mounts, i get this: [root@bigmark /root]# cat /proc/mounts /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/sda2 /boot ext3 rw 0 0 this raises two questions: A) wtf is /dev/root? [root@bigmark /dev]# ls root ls: root: No such file or directory it's not anything that exists, that i can see Secondly, is it ext2 or ext3? I asked in #slug, someone pointed me to a URL which I don't have handy at the moment... however, points to note (and points which mean that that post is not relevant to me): * This is a custom-compiled kernel (although admittedly based on RH7.1's default config, witha all the stuff i don't need stripped out) * I don't have ext3 is a module, it's built into the kernel.. This precludes the obvious suggestion that the root FS is ext2 because the ext3 driver isn't loaded * I'm not looking at /etc/fstab to determine that i'm using ext3 - i'm relying on /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab to determine what FS i'm using... It would appear that /proc/mounts is to be believed in this instance... I'm awatre taht /etc/mtab can be incorrect (you can easily, for instance, force mount(8) not to lis the fs i loads into /etc/mtab)... but if /proc/mounts is to be believed, then why am I using ext2 rather than ext3? Any pointers anyone can give are greatly appreciated -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
