[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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