> Re: Synching disk on logout -- switched to EXT3 (Miquel van Smoorenburg, > Fri Jan 2 16:20:09 2004) > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thanks to all the good advice here, I made the switch to ext3. It was > > quite painless, was neither doable nor necessitating a CD-boot. > > > >Just did the tune2fs -j and edited the fstab and rebooted. > > > >Note that on boot now, I get a warning something like: > >ext2 loader warning, ext3 superblock ..... mounted ext3, filesystem ext2. > > > >Besides this, runs perfectly and survived one switch off with a flawless > > fsck. > > You must set the filesystems as ext3 in /etc/fstab. Not only that, > you need to make sure ext3 is compiled into the kernel (not a module) > or loaded in initrd, and tell the kernel that the root filesystem is > of type ext3 instead of ext2. Otherwise the kernel will mount it > as ext2.
Have learned so far: 1. This warning is symptomatic of Knoppix HD installations which is what I have. 2. Conflicting flags abound: Mtab echoes my fstab mount as ext3 but a /proc/ mounts listing says ext2. 3 Etc. /proc/filesystems does list ext3 as resident. (The knoppix installer's partitioning options included ext3 as well but I had already set up the original ext2 using ParitionMagic.) So ... How do I tell it to the kernel? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
