From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:13:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:13:04 -0400 Received: from zikova.cvut.cz ([147.32.235.100]:46340 "EHLO zikova.cvut.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:12:55 -0400 From: "Petr Vandrovec" Organization: CC CTU Prague To: haiquy@yahoo.com Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:12:34 MET-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: 2.4.7-ac7 ext3: Can I remount and change mount option ? CC: kernel , akpm@zip.com.au X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.40 Message-ID: <9FE3B5FC2@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6 Aug 01 at 12:07, Andrew Morton wrote: > Steve Kieu wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I still can not remount my ext3 root partition to > > change to the data=writeback mode using 2.4.7-ac7 . Steve, you are probably looking for 'rootflags=data=writeback' kernel commandline option. Just add this into your lilo.conf. In /etc/fstab either do not specify 'data=writeback' at all for root partition, or you must use 'data=writeback' (I prefer specifying data=xxx, as then / and other partitions look same in fstab). Best regards, Petr Vandrovec vandrove@vc.cvut.cz