Re: /dev/hda2 on / type unknown ???
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.
Felix
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Felix C. Stegerman
the QuiX project - Open Source Software Development
E-Mail: quix@free.fr
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