unwanted mounting ext3 as ext2

Olaf Mueller daily-planet at istari.de
Sat Nov 20 12:07:56 UTC 2004


Olaf Mueller wrote:

> my root partition / under fc2 (2.6.9-1.3_FC2) is mounted as ext2, but
> I've formatted it as ext3. The error message on booting the system is
> "EXT2-fs warning: ext2_fill_super mounting ext3 as ext2". The output
> from 'grep ext /proc/mounts' is "/dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0".
> I want to mount my root partitin as ext3. So how can I solve this
> problem?
I have solved it now. Maybe someone has the same problem, here is the
solution:
- /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-custom.img 2.6.9-1.3_FC2custom
- add the following line to /etc/grub.conf:
  initrd /initrd-custom.img

Now the root partition is mounted as ext3.


        Olaf




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