On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:34:37AM +0100, Geoff Dolman wrote: > Hi > > I have installed a machine with a /boot in a normal partition and all > other partitions including / on ext3 logical volumes. > (Red Hat 9/lvm 1.0.3). > > I want to snapshot dump these partitions but I didn't realise at the > time of the install that I would have to patch the kernel to be able to > do this with ext3 filing systems. > I don't want to have to do this so I migrated the partitions to ext2 > using tune2fs and changed fstab. > > In the case of / and /var I booted into rescue mode from cd to run > tune2fs against those volumes read-only. > > When I rebooted the machine I got a panic because there was no journal > found on /. Rebooting into rescue mode and restoring the journal on > slash cures this problem. > > How can I change the slash volume from ext3 to ext2? As I mentioned I > edited fstab so there must be some other record somewhere telling the > kernel that slash is ext3 but what? Do I need to make a new initrd.img? Check if your lilo/grub entry contains a "rootfstype=" entry and change that if it says ext3. > > Many thanks > -- > Geoff Dolman <geoff.dolman@cimr.cam.ac.uk> > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
