3 May
2003
3 May
'03
5:06 a.m.
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
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