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From: Wolfgang Weisselberg <weissel@netcologne.de>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] You must specify a filesystem type error
Date: Sat Dec  8 09:03:01 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011208154443.E4792@tiger.bigcats.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C115049.90403@kenamea.com>; from kenny@kenamea.com on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:27:05PM -0800

Hi, Kenny!

Kenny Gorman (kenny@kenamea.com) wrote 33 lines:

> I am utilizing LVM snapshots, and every once in a while I get this 'you 
> must specify the filesystem type' error when trying to mount the volume:

> mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Mount could not mount the FS.  

> But it only happens once in a while.

So it's probably not an journalled FS (which needs a
kernel-patch for online snapshots).  What does the system
log say?  (dmesg, /var/log/messages or whereever)

> How can I rid myself of this 
> issue?  I am on SuSE Linux 7.2 (2.4.7-64GB-smp) with lvm 0.9.1 beta7.

You may want to upgrade your Kernel and LVM-Tools to 1.0.1...
No guarantee that the snapshots will be any better, though.

-Wolfgang

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-08  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-07 17:42 [linux-lvm] You must specify a filesystem type error Kenny Gorman
2001-12-08  9:03 ` Wolfgang Weisselberg [this message]
2001-12-10 12:58   ` Kenny Gorman

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