Re: File-system Ext2 or Ext3??

[Dan Milne <daniel.milne@dynexco.com>]

Did you change the entries in /etc/fstab from ext2 to ext3 ?

Steven Smith wrote:

>>I set up journals on my ext2 FSes (there's two, / and
>>/home) with tune2fs -j, to make them ext3.  But I
>>still get forced fscks at startup,
>>    
>>
>How many? ext3 should be fscked every 20 or so times it gets mounted,
>to find any errors which crept in from somewhere.
>
>If it's more than that, check you've got a recent fsck. ext3 support
>was added in (I think) 1.19.
>
>  
>
>>So I look at cfdisk for /dev/hdb, and it says those
>>partitions are ext2.  Is my cfdisk too old?  Did I do
>>something wrong?
>>    
>>
>This is a maybe-bug in fdisk. Partition table entries have a numerical
>type id, which, for Linux native partitions, is 83 hex. Unfortunately,
>``Linux native'' isn't terribly well defined, with ext, ext2, ext3,
>reiser, and several other having a claim. fdisk assumes ext2 is the One
>True Linux Filesystem, so gives the wrong answer if something else is used.
>It should probably just say Linux.
>
>Steven Smith,
>sos22@cam.ac.uk.
>  
>



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