On Tuesday 22 June 2004 07:13, David Fokkema wrote: > 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 > I do not have an unknown type for my root partition, but I do have the rootfs partition: $ mount | grep '/ ' /dev/md0 on / type reiserfs (rw) $ cat /proc/mounts | grep '/ ' rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root.old / cramfs ro 0 0 /dev2/root2 / reiserfs rw 0 0
I am running sid, 2.6.6 deb image. I believe the cramfs is the initial ram disk image. Perhaps that may be why my root partition is a known type. Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
