Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (888 mails)

[Mark MIsulich <munguanaweza@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 17:35 +0100, Claudio Prono wrote:
> Mark Misulich ha scritto:
> > On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 21:37 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
> >   
> > > On 01/11/2011 09:48 AM, Mark Misulich wrote:
> > >     
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I am not sure how to get home to mount.  I know how to boot to runlevel
> > > > 3, that is how I found out that there was no home for that kernel.  What
> > > > is next?
> > > >
> > > > Mark
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >       
> > > Boot to runlevel 3 and login as root.
> > >
> > > (1) cat /proc/partitions
> > > major minor  #blocks  name
> > >
> > >    8     0  625131864 sda
> > >    8     1    1542208 sda1
> > >    8     2   83891430 sda2
> > >    8     3          1 sda3
> > >    8     5    2048256 sda5
> > >    8     6   36861111 sda6
> > >    8     7  500786181 sda7
> > >
> > > hmm... looks like sda7 is the right size for home on my box.
> > >
> > > (2) confirm that with 'grep home /etc/fstab'
> > > grep home /etc/fstab
> > > /dev/sda7 /home                ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2
> > >
> > > yep, /dev/sda7 is /home
> > >
> > > (3) (as root) mount the home partition:
> > > mount /dev/sda7 /home
> > >
> > > (4) then check that your /home/lxmark is available
> > >
> > > Post any errors you receive.
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
> > >     
> >
> > When I run these commands to mount the /home partition, I get the
> > message:
> >
> > mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4'
> >
> >   
> Seems your kernel does not support ext4 filesystem.... you have
> recompiled it manually? If yes, you are missing the ext4 filesystem
> kernel support, recompile it another time, this time with the ext4 support!
Hi,
no, I didn't recompile the kernel manually.  This problem was created by
yast as it installed a kernel upgrade patch from suse repositories. 


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