I hope this is a suitable forum for this question. I have RedHat9 installed on one partition. I have just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on another partition. When I had a choice in the installation procedure, I chose ext3 (since I understood that the RedHat partitions are ext3). Now I can mount the RedHat9 partitions from ubuntu, but trying to mount the Ubuntu partitions from RedHat produces an uninformative error message. Why could this be ? Are there different variants of ext3 ? Thanks for any help Jeremy
On 04/12/2010 10:03 PM, Jeremy Dawson wrote:> > I hope this is a suitable forum for this question. > > I have RedHat9 installed on one partition. > > I have just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on another partition. When I had a > choice in the installation procedure, I chose ext3 (since I understood > that the RedHat partitions are ext3). > > Now I can mount the RedHat9 partitions from ubuntu, but trying to > mount the Ubuntu partitions from RedHat produces an uninformative > error message. > > Why could this be ? Are there different variants of ext3 ? > > Thanks for any help > > Jeremy > >You should probably try to use a much more recent distribution - that sounds quite ancient. Fedora12 for example will give you something familiar for a Red Hat user and more choices :-) ric
On 04/12/2010 09:03 PM, Jeremy Dawson wrote:> > I hope this is a suitable forum for this question. > > I have RedHat9 installed on one partition. > > I have just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on another partition. When I had a > choice in the installation procedure, I chose ext3 (since I understood > that the RedHat partitions are ext3). > > Now I can mount the RedHat9 partitions from ubuntu, but trying to mount > the Ubuntu partitions from RedHat produces an uninformative error message. > > Why could this be ? Are there different variants of ext3 ?to some degree yes, there are some ext3 features which older kernels may not mount. dmesg likely tells you -something- about the problem - including the error message is always helpful, even if it's uninformative to you :) (the generic mount failure message is generally worthless, but the kernel should say something) -Eric> Thanks for any help > > Jeremy > > > _______________________________________________ > Ext3-users mailing list > Ext3-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users