Re: root system type unknown in /etc/mtab

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya cheryl

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> My system seems to be functioning fine; I recently changed it to ext3. 
> When I look at dmesg my root system (/dev/hda3) is indicated as mounted 
> and an ext3 filesystem with internal journal. However, when I run "mount", 
> while my other partitions are indicated as ext3, my root partition is 
> listed as "unknown" for type. What would the reason for this be and is 
> there a problem?

you're not supposed to be editing/modifying /etc/mtab

to convert from ext2 to ext3, i assumeassume you did:
	tunefs -j /dev/hdaXX  

what is the contents of /etc/fstab
	- it should say ext3  instead of ext2

does the kernel support ext3 natively in the kernel ??

if it doesn't, you will either need to rebuuild a kernel with ext3
support built in or use an initrd to install the ext3 modules before
booting "all the way up"

c ya
alvin