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Jarhead
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 Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 4:11 pm Post subject: changing filesystem type? |
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I am using a Dell Inspiron 1100 with kernel 2.6.5-gentoo-r1. I set up my system to use ext3 filesystems for boot and root, but they show up as ext2 and xfs respectively. I have tried just altering the file in the past, but that doesn't work... Can I change this?
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Nate_S
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| I'm confused, are you wanting to change the filesystem type or what it shows up as? Where is it showing up incorrectly? Also, could you post your fstab? |
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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I guess you didn't edit your /etc/fstab correctly.
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That is how my /etc/fstab showed up. I have just simply edited it in the past, but it wouldn't boot afterwards. My question is, how do I successfully make the change?
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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does anyone have any ideas?
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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Post your current fstab and we'll help you.
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, your fstab would come in handy.
Does booting them is just ext2 file systems work? |
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Jarhead
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 9:23 am Post subject: |
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/etc/fstab
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.14 2003/10/13 20:03:38 azarah Exp $
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail and tail freely.
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/ROOT / xfs noatime 0 0
/dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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The machine boots and works fine, save an error that the root filesystem isn't ext2 during boot. Only problem is that it isn't doing what it is told. 
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 9:35 am Post subject: |
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| Jarhead wrote: | | Code: |
/dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/ROOT / xfs noatime 0 0
/dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0
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your machine boots with this? you have do change these lines to your needs, if boot-partition is the first partition on the first hd it should be /dev/hda1, not BOOT...
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| Jarhead wrote: | /etc/fstab
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.14 2003/10/13 20:03:38 azarah Exp $
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail and tail freely.
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/ROOT / xfs noatime 0 0
/dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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The machine boots and works fine, save an error that the root filesystem isn't ext2 during boot. Only problem is that it isn't doing what it is told. |
Well, it shouldn't work!
You should have to change those device names from /dev/ROOT to /dev/hda4 or whatever.
Very strange. |
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neysx
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 9:41 am Post subject: |
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It's amazing your system boots with such a fstab! I suppose your root is mounted because of the root= parameter of grub if you boot with it. Swap is most likely not used.
As mentioned in the installation instructions, you need to replace the BOOT, ROOT and SWAP with your partition names and file system types, e.g. (mine, not yours, do not copy verbatim) | Code: | /dev/hde1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs noatime 0 1
/dev/hda3 /tmp reiserfs noatime 0 1
/dev/hde2 /usr2 ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hdf3 /usr ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hde3 /db ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hdf1 /home reiserfs noatime 0 1
/dev/hdf2 /var ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/lvm/mirrors /mirrors ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/dvdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 |
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Jarhead
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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my new fstab:
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.14 2003/10/13 20:03:38 azarah Exp $
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail and tail freely.
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hdc1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hdc2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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I'll give this a whirl and see how it goes.
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 12:21 am Post subject: |
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beautiful.... thank you!
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