Re: [patch 1/21] random fixes

[Adam Kropelin <akropel1@rochester.rr.com>]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:25:59PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2002  00:10 -0400, Adam Kropelin wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 08:03:34PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Are you _sure_ it was bad with ext2?
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > [root@devbox adk0212] mount
> > /dev/hda3 on / type ext2 (rw)
> > /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
> > 
> > Is it possible that the darn thing is mounted ext3 even though fstab and mount
> > agree that it's ext2?
> 
> Yes, if you have a journal on your root filesystem, then it will be mounted
> as ext3 regardless of what it says in /etc/fstab.  Since "mount" also
> looks in /etc/fstab for writing the entry in /etc/mtab _after_ the root
> filesystem is mounted, the output from "mount" can also be bogus.  You
> need to check /proc/mounts to see the real answer.

Ahhh, carp.

It's still ext3, precisely as you describe.

*/me hangs head in shame*

When I get home tonight I'll reboot with a rescue disk and blow away the
journal. *That* should fix its little red wagon.

--Adam