On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:12:23PM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > Norman Walsh wrote: > >My root partition is /dev/hda2. My machine boots up and runs fine. > > > >$ cat /etc/fstab | grep hda2 > >/dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 > >1 > >$ mount | grep hda2 > >/dev/hda2 on / type unknown (rw,errors=remount-ro) > > > >That looks a little frightening to me. I touched /forcefsck and > >rebooted. It found errors on the root partition, claimed to fix them, > >and rebooted but the result was still an "unknown" partition type. > > > >Thoughts? > > I just read your post and looked at my own situation. > What I found rather surprised me. > > Same 'unknown type' here: > $ mount | grep hda5 > /dev/hda5 on / type unknown (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro) > > I looked at /proc/mounts which also seemed to have a strange entry: > $ cat /proc/mounts | grep '/ ' > rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 > /dev/root / ext3 rw,noatime 0 > > I've never heard of rootfs and was unable to find some useful > information quickly. > > Unfortunately I don't know whether /proc/mounts used to look different, > since I never really used it. > > It might be of interest which version of Debian you and I are using, > and what kernel. My set-up: > Linux 2.6.7-mm1 (built from kernel.org) > Debian testing/unstable (APT prefers unstable) > > It'd be nice if someone could shed some light on this.
Damn! I have it too... I guess it's nothing, but still... :-/ kernel 2.4.26-1-686 / unstable David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
