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zerogeny
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 Posted: Thu May 02, 2002 7:49 am Post subject: remounting ext3 as ext2 |
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i have changed the fstab file but still my hdd gets mounted as ext3...
what magical command do i need to do. 
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the reason why i asked is because i resized my ext3 with parted but linux hasnt recognised the change! it might be the kernel looking at an old partition table but i dont know. I NEED YOUR HELP or i will go craZzZZeeeEee 
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klieber
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| Posted: Thu May 02, 2002 11:48 am Post subject: Re: remounting ext3 as ext2 |
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| zerogeny wrote: | | what magical command do i need to do. |
There is no magical command -- you just change 'ext3' to 'ext2' in your /etc/fstab. If that isn't working, then either your /etc/fstab isn't correct or you've got something in grub forcing it to mount the partition as ext3.
| zerogeny wrote: | | the reason why i asked is because i resized my ext3 with parted but linux hasnt recognised the change |
I doubt that simply changing to ext2 will solve the problem. As I recall, parted uses an older version of the ext2resize library that doesn't behave nicely with ext3. To resize an ext3 partition, you want to use stand-alone version of ext2resize. There doesn't appear to be a Gentoo package for this, but you can get the source from Sourceforge.
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| Posted: Thu May 02, 2002 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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i have tried editting fstab to no avail, i have written the partition numerous times.
i cant even find the journal so i can remove it (it warranted).
could it be devfs that forcing it to be ext3? |
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| Anonymous wrote: | | could it be devfs that forcing it to be ext3? |
No -- devfs deals in devices, it does not deal in file partition types. (But, feel free to poke around /etc/devfsd.conf if you like)
Could you post your /etc/fstab and your menu.lst file here for review?
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You can also try the following:
| Code: | #tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdaX
#fsck.ext2 -f /dev/hdaX |
But you must make sure the partition you're doing this on is unmounted.
Some more good information in the ext3 FAQ which I found by searching Google
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