From: jason@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Jason Andrade) Subject: Re: [Q] Rootpart. with EXT2 and mount ??? Date: 16 Mar 1993 13:36:26 GMT
arnd@rea.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Arnd Gehrmann) writes:
>If the root-part. is an EXT2-fs. with 0.99p6 all went
>well (booting)! looking the mounted partitions with "mount" shows
>something like:
>...
> /dev/sda2 / minix (defaults)
>...
>but the root ist realy EXT2 ??? What happened there ???
it's just irritating but what is happening is that in /etc/rc,
a line like rdev > /etc/mtab creates that first line ..
and hence by default.. mount assumes its a minix filesystem..
i've commented out that and have something like
echo "/dev/hdb3 / ext2 defaults 0 0" > /etc/mtab
mount -av
then mount will correctly report that / is a ext2fs. yes its a kludge.
no, i havent really thought about doing it in a non kludgy way. this
worked for me after all..
-jason
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