Re: Warning ... EXT3 mounted as EXT2

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 10:44:43 +0100, 
David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> wrote in message 
<[🔎] 200401041044.43733.d_baron@012.net.il>:

> On Friday 02 January 2004 17:00,
> debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> > >>> > EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,65)): ext2_read_super: mounting
> > >ext3>> > filesystem as ext2
> > >>> > This is before the read-only VFS mount for checking.
> >
> > This is possibly the lack of using the initrd. Or something else:
> > are you sure your root is on /dev/hda65 ?
> 
> /proc/partitions confims 3,65:
>    3     0    8257032 hda
>    3     1    8225248 hda1
>    3     2          1 hda2
>    3    64   40146624 hdb
>    3    65    6088635 hdb1

..really?  ;-)  To me this looks a lot like (3,65 == /dev/hdb1).  ;-)

>    3    66          1 hdb2
>    3    67    1028160 hdb3
>    3    69   16113163 hdb5
>    3    70   16900348 hdb6
> 
> hda is a windows disk with one partitions, hdb has the linux, swap and
> two windows partitions as well.
> 
> BTW proc/mounts lists mount as ext2:
> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
> none /proc proc rw 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
> /dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
> /dev/hdb6 /mnt/hdb6 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
> 
> mtab lists ext3 but this will echo whatever is in fstab, I think. This
> file system serviced a hard reboot event without the usual fsck errors
> so what/ whom do I believe?

..hard reboot???  You did an orderly reboot or just 
yanked the power and then shoved it back in???

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