Hello, Did you check your /etc/fstab file? The system will in fact allow you to mount an ext3 file system as an ext2 file system minus the journaling capabilities. You should look at /etc/fstab and make sure that the system is being instructed to mount those files systems as ext3. -- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > I was noticing that my ext3 file systems on /var/spool and on /home are > mounting as ext2 by reading dmesg I get the folloiwng output. > Originally these were formatted as ext2 but then I used tune2fs -j to > convert them over to ext3. My root / is getting mounted as ext3. > Anything I can do? > > Here is output. > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 272k freed > Adding Swap: 124956k swap-space (priority -1) > EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal > EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,3)): ext2_read_super: mounting ext3 > filesystem as ext2 > > EXT2-fs warning (device ide1(22,1)): ext2_read_super: mounting ext3 > filesystem as ext2 > >
