Re: Ext3 mounted as ext2 but journal still in effect.

2007-01-18 Thread Alberto Alonso
Thank you all for all your input. The tune2fs option was eventually used and we run into other problems. I think Andries was right in that the initrd was interfering, that's where we run into issues after the tune2fs. I was trying to avoid the tune2fs as it involves booting into a live CD and brin

Re: Ext3 mounted as ext2 but journal still in effect.

2007-01-18 Thread Andries Brouwer
>> You were right, even after making the changes, it seems to be >> telling lies: >> >> # mount >> /dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw,usrquota) Roughly speaking: /etc/mtab shows you what you said to mount. /proc/mounts shows what the current kernel state is. These may differ greatly. For all filesys

Re: Ext3 mounted as ext2 but journal still in effect.

2007-01-15 Thread Phillip Susi
Why not just use tune2fs to remove the ext3 journal? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Ext3 mounted as ext2 but journal still in effect.

2007-01-12 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > You were right, even after making the changes, it seems to be > telling lies: > > # mount > /dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw,usrquota) > [...] > > However, I think I am still not mounting as ext2: > > # dmesg | grep 'Kernel command' > Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda2 rootfstype=ext2 ..

Re: Ext3 mounted as ext2 but journal still in effect.

2007-01-11 Thread Alberto Alonso
You were right, even after making the changes, it seems to be telling lies: # mount /dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw,usrquota) [...] However, I think I am still not mounting as ext2: # dmesg | grep 'Kernel command' Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda2 rootfstype=ext2 # cat /proc/mounts rootfs /

Re: Ext3 mounted as ext2 but journal still in effect.

2007-01-11 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:08:16 -0600 Alberto Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an ext3 filesystem that has been having problems > with its journal. The result is that the file system > remounts internally as read-only and the server becomes > unusable, even shutdown does not work, using up

Ext3 mounted as ext2 but journal still in effect.

2007-01-11 Thread Alberto Alonso
I have an ext3 filesystem that has been having problems with its journal. The result is that the file system remounts internally as read-only and the server becomes unusable, even shutdown does not work, using up 100% of the CPU but not rebooting. I found some postings indicating that mounting it