From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] ext3 slash
Date: Fri Jun 6 03:59:01 2003 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030606104650.A26768@sistina.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1054888476.11446.8.camel@lupin>; from geoff.dolman@cimr.cam.ac.uk on Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:34:37AM +0100
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:34:37AM +0100, Geoff Dolman wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have installed a machine with a /boot in a normal partition and all
> other partitions including / on ext3 logical volumes.
> (Red Hat 9/lvm 1.0.3).
>
> I want to snapshot dump these partitions but I didn't realise at the
> time of the install that I would have to patch the kernel to be able to
> do this with ext3 filing systems.
> I don't want to have to do this so I migrated the partitions to ext2
> using tune2fs and changed fstab.
>
> In the case of / and /var I booted into rescue mode from cd to run
> tune2fs against those volumes read-only.
>
> When I rebooted the machine I got a panic because there was no journal
> found on /. Rebooting into rescue mode and restoring the journal on
> slash cures this problem.
>
> How can I change the slash volume from ext3 to ext2? As I mentioned I
> edited fstab so there must be some other record somewhere telling the
> kernel that slash is ext3 but what? Do I need to make a new initrd.img?
Check if your lilo/grub entry contains a "rootfstype=" entry and change that
if it says ext3.
>
> Many thanks
> --
> Geoff Dolman <geoff.dolman@cimr.cam.ac.uk>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-06 3:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-06 3:35 [linux-lvm] ext3 slash Geoff Dolman
2003-06-06 3:59 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen [this message]
2003-06-06 5:06 ` Geoff Dolman
2003-06-06 5:36 ` Geoff Dolman
2003-06-06 5:50 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2003-06-07 9:50 ` Luca Berra
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