There was long thread of this topic on debian-dev recently. On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 11:12:11PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Does anyone know if these kernel images for i86 architecture support > the ext3 file system?
I think you are talking -i386 type kaernel-image package > If so, is it in the kernel or a module? I would like to set up my > root directory as an ext3 fs -- but I can't unless this is in the > kernel itself at boot time. ext3 is provided as a modules for your case. Problem is in some kernel-image, ext2 is provided as a part of compiled-in kernel and not as module. If both are modules, you can mount root as ext3. Read other reply for which flavour gives you this option. I use 2.4.18-686-smp and happy on my 2 X P233MMX on BP6. My i486DX2-50MHz notebook suffer since I use 2.4.17-386. Check /proc/filesystems and make sure ext3 shows up earlier than ext2. Also check /proc/mounts to see real mount status of root (mount command is not useful for this purpose.) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki @ Cupertino CA USA See "User's Guide": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/ See "Debian reference": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ "Debian reference" Project at: http://qref.sf.net I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
