I am working on a Red Hat 7.2 system which has been upgraded to the 2.4.9-13 kernel RPMs. The my machines has RPM e2fsprogs-1.23-2 installed but the upgrade from ext2 to ext3 was done manually rather than accepting the offer in the 7.0 to 7.2 upgrade. I did this by running tunefs2 -j on two partitions. I have had some problems following the instructions in the ext3-usage.html <http://www.uow.edu.au/%7Eandrewm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html> document cited earlier in the thread. When I put auto in my fstab, mount reported the root partition being mounted as auto, while another journaled partition, also marked auto in fstab was reported as ext3. Why the difference? Worse, during the boot, I got the message, gnu fsck: Could not determine filesystem type for LABEL=/ gnu fsck: Could not determine filesystem type for LABEL=/home Due in part to the note in the ext3-usage.html document about problems df has with a root partition mounted as auto, I hard coded the type to ext3 in fstab. Now I only get one "Could not determime filesystem type message" and both partitions are reported as ext3 by mount: /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw) /dev/sdb1 on /home type ext3 (rw) I am rather concerned about the fsck message. What should I do: 1) ignore it? 2) upgrade to e3fsprogs-1.25 (does that help)? 3) simply switch the remaining auto to ext3? Thanks Gisli
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:27:40PM +0000, Gisli Ottarsson wrote:> > Worse, during the boot, I got the message, > > gnu fsck: Could not determine filesystem type for LABEL=/ > gnu fsck: Could not determine filesystem type for LABEL=/homeSupport for using filesystem type "auto" and "LABEL=" or "UUID=" device specifiers wasn't working until after 1.25. So you can either (a) work around this problem by using explicit device specifiers (i.e., /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1), (b) work around the problem by specifying a filesystem type of ext3 instead of auto, or (c) upgrading to e2fsprogs 1.26-WIP, which is a test release. E2fsprogs 1.26, which hopefully will be released soon, will fix this bug, and allow you to use both filesystem type auto and LABEL/UUID device specifiers. My apologies for the inconvenience! - Ted
Hi, On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:27:40PM +0000, Gisli Ottarsson wrote:> > I have had some problems following the instructions in the > ext3-usage.html > <http://www.uow.edu.au/%7Eandrewm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html> > document cited earlier in the thread. When I put auto in my fstab, mount > reported the root partition being mounted as auto, while another journaled > partition, also marked auto in fstab was reported as ext3. Why the > difference?Because for root, the kernel is responsible for doing the mount of the root filesystem, not the mount binary.> Worse, during the boot, I got the message, > > gnu fsck: Could not determine filesystem type for LABEL=/ > gnu fsck: Could not determine filesystem type for LABEL=/homefsck should be able to deal with that in the current WIP snapshot on sourceforge.> I am rather concerned about the fsck message. What should I do: > > 1) ignore it? > 2) upgrade to e3fsprogs-1.25 (does that help)?1.26-WIP should help, but I think 1.25 won't.> 3) simply switch the remaining auto to ext3?That's the easiest answer right now. Cheers, Stephen