On May 20, 2002 11:51 -0400, David Chase wrote: > Andreas, as soon as I had clicked "send" it occurred to me that I may > not have "confirmed" after all. "cat /proc/mounts" output the following: > > /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0 > > So I assume you're correct -- I'm not mounting as ext3 after all, hence > the fsck. Any ideas why the partition is being mounted as ext2? > Apologies for asking such a simple question in a very technical mailing > list, but I've exhausted the FAQ, the man pages, and several Google > searches... Besides, even techies start as newbs :) Probably because you are using an initrd with ext3 as a module and not compiled into the kernel. Try "mkinitrd" if that is the case, or just compile ext3 into the kernel. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
