Re: How does the superblock/mount -t auto work? (was: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs)

2003-12-27 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 18:04:14 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 at 23:59 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: Thank you for taking the time to respond, but the above was already pretty clear to me. What's not clear to me are the following points: Sorry, my fault. Since the 'auto'

Re: How does the superblock/mount -t auto work? (was: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs)

2003-12-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 at 10:35 GMT, Paul Morgan penned lots of really good info, including: Here's a good place to start reading (I give the two links because there's not a link from the first page to the second, at least I didn't see one. The second page describes ext3 journalling options.

Re: How does the superblock/mount -t auto work? (was: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs)

2003-12-27 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 09:57:13 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 at 10:35 GMT, Paul Morgan penned lots of really good info, including: Here's a good place to start reading (I give the two links because there's not a link from the first page to the second, at least I didn't

How does the superblock/mount -t auto work? (was: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs)

2003-12-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 at 21:15 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 12:23:23 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Ooh, here *I* have a question. Just noticed that I have my ext3 root partition mounting as 'auto' in my fstab. My other ext3 partitions are mounting as 'ext3,ext2' (in case

Re: How does the superblock/mount -t auto work? (was: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs)

2003-12-26 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 16:08:42 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 at 21:15 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: With auto, mount will probe the superblock to get the filesystem type. cf. man mount I'm not sure how to take a peek at the superblock myself, but the relevant output of

Re: How does the superblock/mount -t auto work? (was: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs)

2003-12-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 at 23:59 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: The magic number is part of the superblock. tune2fs -l is showing you the superblock. The magic number is the same for ext2 and ext3, but the features are different (has_journal for ext3). This is very useful: Suppose you have an ext3