Hi, On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:38:06PM +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > I upgraded my filesystems to ext3 using tune2fs. > > Now I'm using kernel 2.4.17 with ext2 in core and ext3 as a module, so I > have the two jbd.o and ext3.o files under /lib/modules tree. > > If I power off cleanly my system I have no problem rebooting and the > filesystem type of them is ext3 (I put ext3 for root and auto for the > others in fstab). > > If I power off uncleanly the machine, root has to make fsck (in the long > ext2 way and complaining also), while for the other file systems the > journal is applied and in few seconds they are ok and after booting they > are all ext3. > > What is the problem with root filesystem? It could be several things. Does /proc/mounts show the root fs as ext2 or ext3? Getting the wrong root fs type is the most likely problem. > I have read in some places something like this: > > WARNING : If u are converting your existing ext2 root file system to > ext3 than compile ext3 support in the kernel since u > will need it on startup [:-)] > Is it right? Not strictly correct, but it's much easier to get things working that way as you don't have to fiddle with getting the initrd correct. Cheers, Stephen
