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06-02-2005, 06:34 AM #1WHT Addict
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Post-kernel upgrade: ext3 not supported by kernel?
Hi,
I completed a kernel upgrade to 2.4.31 (with grsec) yesterday. (My OS is RH9). However, this resulted in the system not being bootable, as I had unfortunately forgotten to mount my boot partition first.
The lovely folk at LayeredTech got my system back up and running from the new kernel by temporarily booting from (hd01,boot)/boot/ , though I still need to mount my boot partition, obviously.
I tried issuing the command: mount /dev/hda1 /boot, though this returns the error:
Code:mount: fs type ext3 not supported by kernel
I used my old kernel config (2.4.27) in configuring the new one, and ext3 support was not enabled in my old kernel, and thus it is not enabled in my new kernel either. ext2 support however, is indeed enabled.
Any ideas on what I can do, short of recompiling the kernel with ext3 support? Is it really needed, or can I continue and somehow do this with ext2? (I'm aware that ext3 is basically ext2, but with journalling support, is that correct?)
In case it helps, here is my /etc/fstab:
Code:LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults,usrquota 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/tmpMnt /tmp ext2 loop,noexec,nosuid,rw 0 0
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06-02-2005, 02:47 PM #2Junior Guru Wannabe
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I would STRONGLY urge you to recompile with ext3. As you say, ext3 is ext2 + journaling. Helps tremendously when recovering from an unexpected server reboot.
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06-03-2005, 10:00 PM #3WHT Addict
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Hi TimSG, Thanks so much for responding. I suppose it seems that would indeed be the best solution, so I may have to go with that plan of action. Thanks for letting me know.