On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 02:40:14AM +1100, Zhasper wrote: > [root@bigmark /root]# cat /proc/mounts > /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0 > /dev/sda2 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
I have mary@titus:~$ cat /proc/mounts /dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 etc, all other filesystems are ext3 > Secondly, is it ext2 or ext3? ext2 You can mount ext3 filesystems as ext2. I imagine in that case the journal, while present, won't actually be used. <snip> > 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): The URL you were pointed to was the Kernel Traffic summary of a whole lot of users discovering that they had /dev/root mounted as ext2. The URL is http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20011119_142.html#2 and there *does* appear to be some relevant stuff in the actual kernel thread, if not in the summary. First in http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0111.0/1631.html , Andreas Dilger notes that /etc/fstab is not read until after the root filesystem is mounted, so what you instructed in /etc/fstab is irrelevant as far as mounting the root filesystem goes. In http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0111.0/1667.html , Mike Fedyk notes that the root filesystem type will depend on the order of /proc/filesystems mary@titus:~$ cat /proc/filesystems nodev rootfs nodev bdev nodev proc nodev sockfs nodev tmpfs nodev shm nodev pipefs nodev binfmt_misc ext3 ext2 iso9660 nodev autofs nodev devpts nodev smbfs vfat Many of the solutions that linux-kernel suggest are indeed for users who have ext3 compiled as a module (most of them are using the Red Hat 7.2 kernel), however Andrew Morton makes some generic suggestions in: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0111.0/1630.html Unfortunately the URL he gives is useless today as his whole home directory is 403ing. Andreas Dilger makes another suggestion at http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0111.0/1634.html http://www.neiu.edu/~fhalim/docs/ext3-howto.pdf recommends using 'ext3' rather than 'auto' in /etc/fstab, and this is indeed what I am doing on my system. However I don't see exactly why this would help for the root filesystem. There appears to be a relevant ext3-users thread beginning at: http://www.linuxarkivet.nu/mlists/ext3-users/0109/msg00192.html -Mary -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
