Ritesh H Shukla [Sat Nov 03, 2001 at 11:25:22AM -0800]:
Hi,
Hi
- I compiled the kernel with EXT3 support in the
kernel itself. I downloaded the latest patch.I am using 2.4.13 2) downloaded the util-linux2.11f first installed it 3) downloaded e2fsprogs.. installed..
did you make the changes in /etc/fstab ? did you change ext2 to ext3 or to auto ?
afte i rebooted my /dev/hda5 partition is not geting mounted properly ls -l shows it as a directory as 8 k and cd says not a directory
Okay but what *is* /dev/hda5 ? your root partition, /home ?
also during bootup I get a swapon error saying that invalid -e option. booting from an older kernel does not give any such errors...
that is because RedHat in their infinite wisdom for some reason gives out a somewhat modified version of the swapon package. The -e switch is only to suppress any error messages about swap partitions (or files) that have already been initialised. You will not find the -e switch in the man page you now have after upgrading e2fsprogs.
What has happened is that swapon has been upgraded when you upgrade e2fsprogs (or is it util-linux) but rc.sysinit does not know this.
In /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit there are two instances of the swapon commmand, the first on line 149 is to initialise all devices marked as ``sw'' in /etc/fstab. There is another instance of the swapon command on line 623, this one initialises any swap files that you may have. One of these (I forget which one) has a `-a' as well as a `-e' switch. Remove the -e switch. Things will work but you'll have to make do with a message during bootup that says that swap is already initialised.
This seems quick and dirty but it works for me :-).
-Ritesh
regards,
Sharukh.