Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:13:46 -0600 | Subject | Re: CML2-2.1.3 is available | From | Peter Samuelson <> |
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Forgot this point earlier..
[esr] > > > The version I just released does exactly that. Well, not exactly; it > > > actually looks at fstab -- /proc/mounts gives you '/dev/root' rather > > > than a physical device name in the root entry.
IMHO you should still use /proc/mounts to determine the root filesystem type. In my fstab file I don't mention ext3 anywhere - I use 'auto' as fs type instead. That way my ext3 partitions will mount correctly when I boot a non-ext3-capable kernel. (They mount as ext2 in that case.)
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