Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Nov 2002 01:23:19 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: [Q] how to mount ext2 partition accidentally mounted as ext3 |
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On Nov 04, 2002 10:52 +0300, Andrey Panin wrote: > Currently I'm working on resurrection of SGI Visual Workstation support > for 2.5 and some progress was made last week. > VISWS kernel even mounts root fs now (doesn't matter thet framebuffer driver > can't draw anything on the screen and uhci-hcd doesn't work :)) > > But I made one stupid mistake: EXT3 filesystem was enabled in .config file > used for VISWS kernel compilation. So after the first boot of this kernel, > I found that old 2.2.10 kernel making my VISWS self hosting can't mount > root fs complaining about nonsupported filesystem feature. > > My question is how can I make this fs mountable by 2.2.10 again ?
You just need to run a modern e2fsck on the filesystem to flush the journal and clear the "needs_recovery" flag. Alternately mounting it once with a 2.[45] kernel and do a clean shutdown will do the same.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert - 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/
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