On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:59:56PM -0600, Chad C. Walstrom wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 09:18:10AM -0600, Mike Hicks wrote: > > I added ext3 journals to my ext2 filesystems last night (finally > > upgraded to debian's 2.4.16 kernel), rebooted with an fstab reflecting > > the changes, and it almost worked. All of my filesystems except for / > > are mounted as ext3. The kernel detected the filesystem on my root > > partition as ext2. > > > > Is there an appropriate way to kick the kernel into mounting it as > > ext3? > > /etc/fstab needs to have the filetype "auto" instead of ext2 selected. > Also, ext3 has to be compiled monolithically into the kernel... no > modules. Not exactly true. I have an ext3 / and am using an ext3fs module. If you do so, you need to make an initrd image for your kernel. man mkinitrd. Gabe -- Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu SGI Origin Systems Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu