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Re: Sarge fsck problem with RHEL4 ext3 ?



On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:07:23PM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 08:46:12AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote:
> 
> > I recently configured a system to dual boot Sarge and RHEL4.  I have a
> > couple of ext3 filesystems that were created during the RHEL install
> > that I want to share between them.  Sarge installed fine, but on boot,
> > fsck hangs up on the ext3 filesystems created by RHEL - 'unknown
> > attributes, consider upgrading e2fsprogs' (sorry I'm paraphrasing, I
> > didn't write the exact error message down...).
> 
> This is the error message:
> 
> 86# fsck /dev/sda3
> fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
> e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
> fsck.ext2: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s) (/)
> e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck!
> 
> The filesystem was created using the default setup procedure for an ext3
> filesystem during RHEL4 install.
> 
> BTW, fsck.ext3 has the same problem:
> 
> 87# fsck.ext3 /dev/sda3
> e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
> fsck.ext3: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s) (/)
> e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck!

Just checked version of e2fsprogs that Redhat is using for RHEL4.
*Looks* like the same version in Debian Sarge.  So it must have been
Redhat'ified.

1006# rpm -qa | grep e2fs
e2fsprogs-devel-1.35-11.6.EL4
e2fsprogs-1.35-11.6.EL4

What so-called *feature* did Redhat add???

-- 
Ron Peterson
Network & Systems Manager
Mount Holyoke College
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso



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