On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 the mental interface of 
Jacob S. told:

> On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:48:03 -0600 (CST)
> Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > My hard drive is set up with /dev/hda1   /boot
> > and /dev/hda2   /
> > /dev/hda3 is my swap space.
> > 
> > When I edit /etc/fstab to set /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda1 to ext3 instead
> > of ext2, I get the error:
> > kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,1)
> > My file /etc/mtab shows /dev/hda2 mounted as ext3, but /dev/hda1
> > does not mount.  I have no /boot directory.
> > If I change the /etc/fstab file to mount /dev/hda2 as ext3 and
> > /dev/hda1 as ext2, then both are mounted without errors.  Can anyone
> > point out my problem?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >     Russ
> 
> Howdy Russ,
> 
> I know this sounds obvious, but perhaps you haven't created a journal on
> hda1 yet? To quote the ext3 mini howto:
> 
> "An ext2 filesystem may be converted to ext3 by creating a journal file
> on it.  To do this, run
> 
> tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX
> 
> on the target filesystem.  The filesystem is now ext3!

If Russ does this on his /dev/hda3 his swap wil be gone ;-)

Happy Xmas

Elimar

-- 
  Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, 
  not the fountainheads ;-)

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