Re: checking whether partition mounted as ext3
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:43:51 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On 2004-01-19, Paul Morgan penned:
>>
>> With regard to booting: if you don't specify the root filesystem at
>> boot time, how is the OS going to find it? There is, apparently a
>> default for the root filesystem compiled into the kernel - I don't
>> know what it is, but I bet it's probably not very useful.
>>
>
> You can specify auto for the root type. It's not recommended, but it's
> possible. I have auto specified in my fstab -- I'm not sure what I was
> thinking when I did it, but it works and mounts the partition as ext3,
> based on the fact that my logs indicate that journalling was activated
> for the partition.
I wasn't talking about the type but the device. Apparently there's a
default device compiled into the kernel according to the bootparam
manpage, `root=...' section. Now I read it again, it seems to indicate
that if one builds one's own kernel, the default is the root device of the
system it was built on, so, theoretically, one shouldn't need the root=
parameter. I'll have to try that out.
--
....................paul
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enough hammer.
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