Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Aug 2002 08:37:38 -0400 | From | Adam Kropelin <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/21] random fixes |
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:25:59PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Aug 13, 2002 00:10 -0400, Adam Kropelin wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 08:03:34PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Are you _sure_ it was bad with ext2? > > > > Yes. > > > > [root@devbox adk0212] mount > > /dev/hda3 on / type ext2 (rw) > > /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) > > > > Is it possible that the darn thing is mounted ext3 even though fstab and mount > > agree that it's ext2? > > Yes, if you have a journal on your root filesystem, then it will be mounted > as ext3 regardless of what it says in /etc/fstab. Since "mount" also > looks in /etc/fstab for writing the entry in /etc/mtab _after_ the root > filesystem is mounted, the output from "mount" can also be bogus. You > need to check /proc/mounts to see the real answer.
Ahhh, carp.
It's still ext3, precisely as you describe.
*/me hangs head in shame*
When I get home tonight I'll reboot with a rescue disk and blow away the journal. *That* should fix its little red wagon.
--Adam
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