On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 the mental interface of Jacob S. told: > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:48:03 -0600 (CST) > Russ Cook <russcook@flash.net> wrote: > > > My hard drive is set up with /dev/hda1 /boot > > and /dev/hda2 / > > /dev/hda3 is my swap space. > > > > When I edit /etc/fstab to set /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda1 to ext3 instead > > of ext2, I get the error: > > kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,1) > > My file /etc/mtab shows /dev/hda2 mounted as ext3, but /dev/hda1 > > does not mount. I have no /boot directory. > > If I change the /etc/fstab file to mount /dev/hda2 as ext3 and > > /dev/hda1 as ext2, then both are mounted without errors. Can anyone > > point out my problem? > > > > Thanks, > > Russ > > Howdy Russ, > > I know this sounds obvious, but perhaps you haven't created a journal on > hda1 yet? To quote the ext3 mini howto: > > "An ext2 filesystem may be converted to ext3 by creating a journal file > on it. To do this, run > > tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX > > on the target filesystem. The filesystem is now ext3! If Russ does this on his /dev/hda3 his swap wil be gone ;-) Happy Xmas Elimar -- Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads ;-)
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