Re: ext3 filesystem runs as ext2

From: David Warren (davidw_spam_at_spam_gto.net)
Date: 05/11/04 

Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 16:42:26 -0400

xannax wrote:
> Will Wesley wrote:
>
>
>>xannax wrote:
>> > yadda yadda yadda.
>>
>>>/dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
>>
>> ^^^^--- maybe?
>
> Yeah, you would think so, but changing the fstab file as you suggest
> only causes the whole /usr partition to fail at boot time, leaving the
> machine pretty much useless.
> BTW, the original specs are from fstab -- the /usr partition is
> formatted as ext3

Well I will ask the obvious question, do you have ext3 fs support
compiled into the kernel?

Dave

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