I have just installed SuSE 7.3, but missed the option to use ext3 during the install, so my machine is stuck with ext2. I am not having any luck converting it over to ext3. When I look around my system, it looks like support for ext3 is built as a module for the kernel 2.4.10 that SuSE installed. So I ran "tune2fs -j /dev/hda1" and changed the line in /etc/fstab to ext3. No go. What am I missing?
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 16:14 pm, Gnu iBook 2 wrote:
When I look around my system, it looks like support for ext3 is built as a module for the kernel 2.4.10 that SuSE installed. So I ran "tune2fs -j /dev/hda1" and changed the line in /etc/fstab to ext3. No go. What am I missing?
A change to initrd to include the ext3 module at boot time. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 12/19/01 16:29 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "It's as bad as you think, and they *are* out to get you."
On Wednesday, December 19, 2001, at 01:29 PM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 16:14 pm, Gnu iBook 2 wrote:
When I look around my system, it looks like support for ext3 is built as a module for the kernel 2.4.10 that SuSE installed. So I ran "tune2fs -j /dev/hda1" and changed the line in /etc/fstab to ext3. No go. What am I missing?
A change to initrd to include the ext3 module at boot time.
Ok. I have read in past messages to this list that there are/ may be bugs ina file called mk_initrd, and I have downloaded and tried the other version of this file. A search through this file of ext3 shows that both versions have exactly the same reference to ext3, so I am not suprised tht it made no difference. Other then that, I have a /dev/initrd and a /sbin/pcinitrd.
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 16:42 pm, Gnu iBook 2 wrote:
Ok. I have read in past messages to this list that there are/ may be bugs ina file called mk_initrd, and I have downloaded and tried the other version of this file. A search through this file of ext3 shows that both versions have exactly the same reference to ext3, so I am not suprised tht it made no difference.
Other then that, I have a /dev/initrd and a /sbin/pcinitrd.
Did you try putting the ext3 module name in /etc/rc.config and then running mk_initrd. Point is, bug or not, you are going to need to have that ext3 module available to the kernel when it boots. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 12/19/01 17:05 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "You are a bundle of energy always on the go."
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