On Sat, 3 May 2003 04:50 am, derek holzer wrote: > so i changed the fs of my root partition from ext3 to ext2 in the > /etc/fstab and rebooted. guess what? it still mounted as ext3! why is > that?!? The kernel needs to mount the root filesystem before it can read /etc/fstab, which means it needs to rely on the filesystem flags to determine what type of filesystem it is. You need to tell that partition that it doesn't have a journal, which in effect makes it ext2. This command should do it: tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda2 (using the correct partition, of course). However, to make things really tricky, this can only be done on a filesystem that is umounted or read-only. I think you mentioned you were running out of a temporary root? You might need to use this, or boot off a rescue CD or something. On some distributions, booting into single user mode can also lead to a ro root filesystem, but I haven't seen that in a while. t -- GPG : http://n12turbo.com/tarragon/public.key
