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Re: How to enable EXT3 FS on 2.4



On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 05:55:34PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>
> > Because you've changed fstab which contains the root filesystem type...
> 
> I did not remount.  So root FS is still ext2 until reboot.  Besides,
> file location of all files (kernel image, initrd image is stationally)

mkinitrd uses fstab to find out the root file system type, which decides
what goes into the initrd image...

> > You could also simply reinstall kernel-image of course.
> 
> I did install kernel-image before editing fstab.  Is not it enough?

Reinstalling kernel-image runs mkinitrd automatically.

> I greped source of lilo and I only see "fstab" in configuration scripts
> (liloconfig, lilo_find_mbr) which are not used and will not be affected
> by my fstab edit.

Try grepping /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.
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