Re: problem that ext3 not recognized on 4G usb external drive freshly formated. only ext2

2011-07-23 Thread lee
Mitchell Laks writes: > Rashi:/home/mlaks# fdisk /dev/sdd Better use fdisk -luc as suggested in the warning. > Rashi:/home/mlaks# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdd1 mkfs -t ext3 ... > Rashi:/home/mlaks# mount -t ext2 /dev/sdd1 /mnt What do you expect when you explicitly mount the FS as ext2? -- http://w

Re: problem that ext3 not recognized on 4G usb external drive freshly formated. only ext2

2011-07-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:18:41 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Has anyone seen something like this? > Here is the log of creating an ext3 partition on a device and lack of > recognition as ext3 just ext2. very strange. (...) Safely remove the USB drive and connect it again. Is the drive automounted

problem that ext3 not recognized on 4G usb external drive freshly formated. only ext2

2011-07-22 Thread Mitchell Laks
Has anyone seen something like this? Here is the log of creating an ext3 partition on a device and lack of recognition as ext3 just ext2. very strange. Rashi:/home/mlaks# fdisk /dev/sdd Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabe

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-25 Thread Wayne Topa
Anton Graham([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Submitted 24-Jan-02 by Wayne Topa: > > Please describe what you did to "change the root partition to ext3" > > Did you make the filesystems/ext3 option a module or installed in the > > kernel? It can't be a module! > > Actually, it can i

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-25 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:06:46PM -0800, Andrew Agno wrote: > Both ext2 and ext3 are modules and everything works fine. > Ah! Hold on one second. I installed 2.4.17-386 on the new > installations, and it seems that on 2.4.17-386, only ext3 is a > module, not ext2, whereas with 2.4.17-6

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-25 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 24-Jan-02 by Wayne Topa: > Please describe what you did to "change the root partition to ext3" > Did you make the filesystems/ext3 option a module or installed in the > kernel? It can't be a module! Actually, it can if you use an initrd to load the module before the root fs is mounted.

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 05:34:56PM -0800, Andrew Agno wrote: | dman writes: | > What is your root fs there? If either | > a) root fs is not ext3 | > or | > b) ext3 module is in your initrd and loaded by the kernel during | > boot | > | > you can have it as a module. (thi

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew Agno
Wayne Topa writes: > So it seems you have a setup that people would be very interested in. Surely I'm not the only one that runs 2.4.17-686 with an ext3 root partition, which just works after installing it via apt-get? And hopefully I'm not the only one who's tried it with 2.4.17-386... Andrew.

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew Agno
dman writes: > What is your root fs there? If either > a) root fs is not ext3 > or > b) ext3 module is in your initrd and loaded by the kernel during > boot > > you can have it as a module. (this is a general statement; perhaps > there is something special regarding ext

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Andrew Agno([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Andrew Agno([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > I'm having a problem with recent installs of Debian. My install > > > process goes like this: > > > > > > Install a base potato dist. > > > Upgrade to testing. > > >

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:20:10PM -0800, Andrew Agno wrote: | > > Please describe what you did to "change the root partition to ext3" | > > Did you make the filesystems/ext3 option a module or installed in the | > > kernel? It can't be a module! | > | > Sure it can. On one computer I ha

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew Agno
> > Please describe what you did to "change the root partition to ext3" > > Did you make the filesystems/ext3 option a module or installed in the > > kernel? It can't be a module! > > Sure it can. On one computer I have, I'm running 2.4.17-686 from Okay, and reading the help for CONFIG_

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew Agno
> Andrew Agno([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I'm having a problem with recent installs of Debian. My install > > process goes like this: > > > > Install a base potato dist. > > Upgrade to testing. > > > > After doing this, I change the root partition to ext3, and instal

Re: ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Andrew Agno([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I'm having a problem with recent installs of Debian. My install > process goes like this: > > Install a base potato dist. > Upgrade to testing. > > After doing this, I change the root partition to ext3, and install a > 2.4 kernel (2.4.17

ext3 not recognized?

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew Agno
I'm having a problem with recent installs of Debian. My install process goes like this: Install a base potato dist. Upgrade to testing. After doing this, I change the root partition to ext3, and install a 2.4 kernel (2.4.17). When I reboot, the very first mount of / mounts it as ext2: kernel: