[NBLUG/talk] debian wierdness

Walter Hansen gandalf at sonic.net
Sat Aug 12 01:25:16 PDT 2006


tc lewis wrote:
> 
>>> On Friday 11 August 2006 17:52, Walter Hansen wrote:
>>>> If I mount a partition in fstab it works fine but if I mount int
>>>> manually
>>>> I get:
>>>>
>>>> mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
>>>
>>> what's your manual mount command look like?
>>>
>> mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/backup
>>
>> I think it does pretty much the same thing if you specify the -t
>>
>> I really think I need to recompile the kernel. This one sucks. It's a
>> stock debian sarge amd64 and it doesn't seem to have much of any modules.
>> I wonder if I'm even gaining anything by using the amd64 strain on a
>> server (web/file/mysql)?
> 
> what's fstab have?
> is ext2 in /proc/filesystems?
> sure you don't mean ext3?  ;)
> is /dev/sdd1 really ext*?
> 
> -tcl.

fstab had only ext3, didn't have any reason to use anything else

but I started trying ext2 for backup purposes as journaling seemed 
unnesciary

I tried formating /dev/sdd1 as ext2 and ext3. I could get it to work on 
reboot as ext3, but not ext2. I now think that this is why I couldn't 
get the encrypted drive to work. I bet it would work if I had used ext3 
formatting, but the combination of using ext2 and encryption hid where 
the actual problem was.

/proc/filesystems (nope):
nodev   sysfs
nodev   rootfs
nodev   bdev
nodev   proc
nodev   sockfs
nodev   usbfs
nodev   usbdevfs
nodev   futexfs
nodev   tmpfs
nodev   pipefs
nodev   eventpollfs
nodev   devpts
         cramfs
nodev   ramfs
nodev   devfs
nodev   mqueue
         ext3

for reference here is /proc/filesystems from a older RH system:
nodev   rootfs
nodev   bdev
nodev   proc
nodev   sockfs
nodev   tmpfs
nodev   shm
nodev   pipefs
         ext2
nodev   ramfs
         iso9660
nodev   devpts
         ext3
nodev   autofs

showing I'm missing iso9660 and ext2.

2.6.8-11-amd64-k8




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