RE: Synching disk on logout -- switched to EXT3

From: Paul Morgan (paulswm_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 12/31/03

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    Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:22:54 -0500
    
    

    On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 22:55:12 +0100, David Baron wrote:

    > Thanks to all the good advice here, I made the switch to ext3. It was quite
    > painless, was neither doable nor necessitating a CD-boot.
    >
    > Just did the tune2fs -j and edited the fstab and rebooted.
    >
    > Note that on boot now, I get a warning something like:
    > ext2 loader warning, ext3 superblock ..... mounted ext3, filesystem ext2.
    >
    > Besides this, runs perfectly and survived one switch off with a flawless fsck.

    did you define it in fstab as ext3? what is the exact message, because
    the approximation you give sounds like it is not mounted as ext3

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