Ext3 users - Apr 2006 - EXT2-fs warning (device hda6): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2

I often get the message:

EXT2-fs warning (device hda6): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2

I have googled for a reason and a way to solve this -
but not found something I could use. Maybe somebody here konws
what to do?

best regards
keld

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 12:05 +0200, Keld J?rn Simonsen
wrote:
> I often get the message:
> 
> EXT2-fs warning (device hda6): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as
ext2
> 
> I have googled for a reason and a way to solve this -
> but not found something I could use. Maybe somebody here konws
> what to do?
This can happen for several reasons:-

1) Make sure you specify ext3 in /etc/fstab, e.g.
...
/dev/hda6          /boot       ext3    defaults        1 2

2) 'ext3' may not be compiled into your kernel (or the module may be
missing). What kernel are you using and did you compile it yourself?

3) You may be hard coding ext2 in some mount command. Make sure that the
filesystem is unspecified or set it to ext3, e.g.
$ mount -t ext3 /dev/hda6 /mnt/tmp

	Jon

On Apr 21, 2006  12:05 +0200, Keld J?rn Simonsen wrote:
> I often get the message:
> 
> EXT2-fs warning (device hda6): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as
ext2
> 
> I have googled for a reason and a way to solve this -
> but not found something I could use. Maybe somebody here konws
> what to do?
It means your initrd (or /etc/fstab) is mounting an ext3 filesystem as ext2.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.