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Re: 20000201 i386 boot floppies test report



On 6 Feb 2000, Adam Di Carlo wrote:

> Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> writes:
> 
> > I noticed that when I initialized the / partition (~500M) only 4
> > superblocks were created (slink's mke2fs created a few dozen(?)).
> > When I mounted a partition on the slink side of the box from within
> > potato I got a `mounting unchecked filesystem' warning, yet slink
> > doesn't see it as unchecked and I didn't run fsck.
> 
> This is not a slink vs potato issue.  Don't jump to unwarranted
> conclusions.  It is simply that on shutdown, the root filesystem (in
> bf 2.2.6) is not always getting cleanly unmounted.  We're working on
> this...

Hmmm, I don't think that is what was going on.  I hadn't shutdown yet.
I had just finished the install, created a /mnt/hda3 dir, then did a
"mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3".  hda3 is my / slink partition.

I'll see if I get the same message later this evening when I go to
install the potato packages that are stored on hda3.

> > Is 2.2.6 defaulting to the new ext2 features?
> > How does one check whether the new features are enabled?
> 
> I dunno, look at e2fsprogs.  Probably 'debugfs' ...

I'll play with that also.


- Bruce


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