Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 03:33:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 03:33:40 -0500 Received: from deviant.impure.org.uk ([195.82.120.238]:63362 "EHLO deviant.impure.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 03:33:39 -0500 Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 08:41:57 -0100 From: Dave Jones To: Mitch Adair Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] update filesystems config. menu Message-ID: <20030315094151.GA16373@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Mitch Adair , "Randy.Dunlap" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200303150819.h2F8JfW15921@mako.theneteffect.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303150819.h2F8JfW15921@mako.theneteffect.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1001 Lines: 25 On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 02:19:40AM -0600, Mitch Adair wrote: > I seem to recall if you say Y to ext2 and Y to ext3 and your root is on ext3 > then it's likely to be mounted as ext2 unless you set rootfstype=... > The ext3 help comment also warns you should set it to Y, so people with > root ext3 are likely to get a surprise if they follow both help. Would it > be better to say something like "if your root partition is extX you almost > certainly want to say Y here"? Or warn about the rootfstype issue maybe? (03:40:50:davej@tetrachloride:davej)$ mount /dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) (08:40:13:davej@tetrachloride:davej)$ cat /proc/filesystems | grep ext ext3 ext2 Note the ordering, ext3 gets tried before ext2. Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/