Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sat, 15 Mar 2003 08:41:57 -0100 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] update filesystems config. menu |
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On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 02:19:40AM -0600, Mitch Adair wrote:
> I seem to recall if you say Y to ext2 and Y to ext3 and your root is on ext3 > then it's likely to be mounted as ext2 unless you set rootfstype=... > The ext3 help comment also warns you should set it to Y, so people with > root ext3 are likely to get a surprise if they follow both help. Would it > be better to say something like "if your root partition is extX you almost > certainly want to say Y here"? Or warn about the rootfstype issue maybe?
(03:40:50:davej@tetrachloride:davej)$ mount /dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
(08:40:13:davej@tetrachloride:davej)$ cat /proc/filesystems | grep ext ext3 ext2
Note the ordering, ext3 gets tried before ext2.
Dave
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