Re: /dev/hda2 on / type unknown ???
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:12:23PM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote:
> Norman Walsh wrote:
> >My root partition is /dev/hda2. My machine boots up and runs fine.
> >
> >$ cat /etc/fstab | grep hda2
> >/dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
> >1
> >$ mount | grep hda2
> >/dev/hda2 on / type unknown (rw,errors=remount-ro)
> >
> >That looks a little frightening to me. I touched /forcefsck and
> >rebooted. It found errors on the root partition, claimed to fix them,
> >and rebooted but the result was still an "unknown" partition type.
> >
> >Thoughts?
>
> I just read your post and looked at my own situation.
> What I found rather surprised me.
>
> Same 'unknown type' here:
> $ mount | grep hda5
> /dev/hda5 on / type unknown (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro)
>
> I looked at /proc/mounts which also seemed to have a strange entry:
> $ cat /proc/mounts | grep '/ '
> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> /dev/root / ext3 rw,noatime 0
>
> I've never heard of rootfs and was unable to find some useful
> information quickly.
>
> Unfortunately I don't know whether /proc/mounts used to look different,
> since I never really used it.
>
> It might be of interest which version of Debian you and I are using,
> and what kernel. My set-up:
> Linux 2.6.7-mm1 (built from kernel.org)
> Debian testing/unstable (APT prefers unstable)
>
> It'd be nice if someone could shed some light on this.
Damn! I have it too... I guess it's nothing, but still... :-/
kernel 2.4.26-1-686 / unstable
David
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