On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:26:30PM -0800, Gabe E. Nydick wrote: > How come if I install a fresh redhat 7.2 system and change fstab from > defaults to data=journal for the / file system, it breaks everything? I believe because the journalling mode is being changed when / is re-mounted, and that is not allowed. You have to ensure that it is mounted as data=journal in the first place. This needs to be changed in the initrd. If you have an up-to-date mkinitrd, then you should be able to modify /etc/fstab, then re-run mkinitrd. I haven't tried this (and I just broke my laptop a few minutes ago) ... Would someone please confirm? Regards, Bill Rugolsky