-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/2010 07:42 AM, Mark Goldstein wrote:
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Mike McMullin
wrote: On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 14:25 +0200, Mark Goldstein wrote:
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Mike McMullin
wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 21:12 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: ... How I made it ext3 - I do not know.
Apologies for misleading (If I misled anybody except myself),
I have found out the hard way, that looking at the config/reference files tells me things about my system that I thought I knew but didn't, /etc/fstab is the most logical indicator of how things were setup/ought to be. So I asked.
Thank you Mike. Actually Carlos told me from the very beginning that it is not possible, but I was so absolute sure I did not use ext3... And indeed all other computers I was using were reiserfs. But not this one. Stupid me. Will check and re-check myself next time :-(.
Well... it just happened to me. :-O I had just installed 11.2_x64 on another partition, formatted as reiserfs - I'm definitely sure of this. I recovered some data from a backup of a previous install. Then I filled the fstab from another copy, and, big mistake, rewrote the root entry as _ext3_. Rebooted. No error was reported. But... there were strange things. I copied them: mount said: /dev/sda9 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) fstab said: LABEL=a_test2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 "file -s /dev/sda9" said: /dev/sda9: ReiserFS V3.6 boot.msg log said: <5>[ 3.104641] REISERFS (device sda9): found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal <5>[ 3.104652] REISERFS (device sda9): using ordered data mode <4>[ 3.104653] reiserfs: using flush barriers <5>[ 3.105080] REISERFS (device sda9): journal params: device sda9, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, <5>[ 3.105360] REISERFS (device sda9): checking transaction log (sda9) <5>[ 3.146242] REISERFS (device sda9): Using r5 hash to sort names Ie, it is and was a reiserfs partition, but mount wrongly reported that it was ext3. There is definitely a bug here. (I corrected the fstab and rebooted; things are correct now and no damage seems to have come out of it... (I did not try to fsck). I'll keep my fingers crossed) And I'm very, very surprissed :-( - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAktu0roACgkQU92UU+smfQWm2gCggas7MqQRT4ZWTX8ypAdbLs3c N6MAmgN+WDe1phHTzo795kQhdkeGHdBm =PLRP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org