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From: Dewet Diener <dewet@dewet.org>
To: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX>
Cc: Stephen C Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext3 partition unmountable
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 01:40:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010819014021.B26332@darkwing.flatlit.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010818235211.A24646@darkwing.flatlit.net> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108182257490.9206-100000@infradead.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108182257490.9206-100000@infradead.org>; from rhw@MemAlpha.CX on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 11:04:41PM +0100

On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 11:04:41PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:
> The relevant mount option is to specify the ext3 rather than the ext2
> file system, and the flag you refer to gets set if ANYBODY sets the
> "COMPRESS THIS FILE" flag on ANY file on that file system. As far as I
> can tell, nothing ever resets that flag, even if the last file that
> was compressed gets uncompressed.

I doubt that ever happened - its pretty much a single-user system,
and I can't say that I quite know *how* to set that flag in the first
place :)

> You have an old version of tune2fs, and need to get the one that knows
> about ext3 or alternatively apply the patch that was distributed some
> time ago and recompile - I'm not sure which.
> 
> Stephen: What's the current status regarding tune2fs and ext3, I'm a
> tad out of date in this respect?

I'm running e2fsprogs-1.22 (which is later than the one specified from
Documentation/Changes), so I kinda assumed everything was fine...

Dewet


  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-18 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-18  1:03 ext3 partition unmountable Dewet Diener
2001-08-18 11:07 ` Mike Black
2001-08-18 21:52   ` Dewet Diener
2001-08-18 22:04     ` Riley Williams
2001-08-18 23:40       ` Dewet Diener [this message]
2001-08-20 18:10       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-08-20 21:37         ` Dewet Diener
2001-08-18 22:29 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-18 23:35   ` Dewet Diener
2001-08-19 14:06   ` Dewet Diener
2001-08-19 16:00     ` Theodore Tso

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