From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263737AbTEYUWc (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2003 16:22:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263743AbTEYUWc (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2003 16:22:32 -0400 Received: from yankee.rb.xcalibre.co.uk ([217.8.240.35]:32132 "EHLO yankee.rb.xcalibre.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263737AbTEYUWa (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2003 16:22:30 -0400 Envelope-to: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Alistair J Strachan To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.5.69-mm9 Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 21:35:36 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 References: <200305251619.40137.alistair@devzero.co.uk> <20030525131512.45ce0cc2.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030525131512.45ce0cc2.akpm@digeo.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; boundary="Boundary-00=_YkS0+cnbht2PbjX" Message-Id: <200305252135.37109.alistair@devzero.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --Boundary-00=_YkS0+cnbht2PbjX Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 25 May 2003 21:15, you wrote: > > Changing fstab will not cause / to be mounted by ext2: the kernel makes the > decision for /. You may be able to use "rootfstype=" (I don't think I've > ever tried it). > > The proper way to convert to ext2 is: > > - boot with init=/bin/sh > > - /sbin/tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda1 > > - /sbin/e2fsck -fy /dev/hda1 > > - reboot, edit /etc/fstab for the non-root filesystems. Thanks for this info. I just removed the journal and now have / mounted permanently as ext2. -mm9 got to login without a problem. I deliberately kept my /home volume as ext3 but commented it out in /etc/fstab. I logged in as root and did: mount -t ext3 /dev/discs/disc0/part3 /home This also worked fine, I could read all the files on the volume. However, when I did: touch /home/tmp sync The kernel barfed out the attached junk and the file was never committed. The volume was not corrupted as I was able to reboot with -mm6 and all is fine. tmp does not exist on the volume. Presumably this is of more help to you. Since / is now ext2, I'm unencumbered and so will be able to test anything you like. 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