Re: ext3 not recognized?
dman writes:
> What is your root fs there? If either
> a) root fs is not ext3
> or
> b) ext3 module is in your initrd and loaded by the kernel during
> boot
>
> you can have it as a module. (this is a general statement; perhaps
> there is something special regarding ext3 that makes a difference).
Well, the help seemed to imply that if you have your root fs as ext3
(which I do:
% rdev
/dev/hdb2 /
% tune2fs -l /dev/hdb2
...
Filesystem features: has_journal filetype needs_recovery sparse_super
...
), then you needed to have it compiled into the kernel:
[ from .../linux/Documentation/Configure.help ]
module will be called ext3.o. Be aware however that the file system
of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
be compiled as a module, and so this may be dangerous.
I'm beginning to suspect that it will work if ext2 is also compiled as
a module, and both are put into the initrd image. I'll have to do
some testing tomorrow to see if this is true. Anybody have any
experiences either way?
Andrew.
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