Re: root partition and ext3
On Sat, 18 May 2002, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 12:19:14AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Sorry for bothering you. I know this has been a thread on debian-devel
> > already. I followed parts of it, but did not get a clear understanding
> > of what to do. My installed kernel is kernel-image-2.4.18-5-686.
> >
> > After successful transfer of all partitions to ext3, using tune2fs -j
> > /dev/sda?, I thought everything was OK, also for the root
> > partition. But its NOT! While having both ext2 and ext3 as modules, as
> > with kernel-2.4.18-5, the root partition is mounted as ext2, not
> > ext3. This has been verified when rebooting after problems with
> > shutdown (especially with upgrading glibc etc) when the root partition
> > is uncleanly unmounted. How to resolve this, the fstab entry is
> > useless since it's on the not yet mounted on the / partition...? I
> > assume mounting of the root partition is taken care of by the kernel..
> >
> > mount
> > /dev/sda1 on / type ext3,ext2 (rw)
> > ...
> >
> > cat /etc//fstab:
> > /dev/sda1 / ext3,ext2 defaults 0 1
> > ...
>
> What happens is, the kernel will try the first module (from initrd) that
> can mount the partition. It just happens to find ext2 first.
> You need to put a line
>
> ext3
>
> in your /etc/mkinitrd/modules, and remove any line saying
>
> ext2
>
> (all your partitions are ext3, right?). Then, rerun mkinitrd. Read man
> mkinitrd first.
This is wrong. Check:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=135537&repeatmerged=yes
for a discussion and a proposed solution.
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