Re: [patch 1/21] random fixes

[Andreas Dilger]

On Aug 13, 2002  00:10 -0400, Adam Kropelin wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 08:03:34PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Are you _sure_ it was bad with ext2?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> [root@devbox adk0212] mount
> /dev/hda3 on / type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
> 
> Is it possible that the darn thing is mounted ext3 even though fstab and mount
> agree that it's ext2?

Yes, if you have a journal on your root filesystem, then it will be mounted
as ext3 regardless of what it says in /etc/fstab.  Since "mount" also
looks in /etc/fstab for writing the entry in /etc/mtab _after_ the root
filesystem is mounted, the output from "mount" can also be bogus.  You
need to check /proc/mounts to see the real answer.

Cheers, Andreas
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