Re: fstab not mounting, but command line mount works

From: Anthony E. Greene (agreene_at_pobox.com)
Date: 09/09/03

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    On 08-Sep-2003/16:55 -0700, Ian L <redhat@merk.caltech.edu> wrote:
    >
    >well mount says its ext2. I thought i had formatted it with ext3, but maybe
    >i didnt. If its working as ext2 i dont really care. I dont really know what
    >the difference is between ext2 and ext3. as long as its working i'm happy.

    ext3 is a journaling filesystem. It keeps track of every change and allows
    the system to reliably recover after an unexpected system shutdown. I'd
    use in on any partition where I expect to write data.

    Tony 

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