what is the root filesystem mounted as??

[James Cameron]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 02:34:33AM -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 19:09 +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> > Editing /etc/fstab on a laptop and comparing dmesg between boots shows
> > no change to how the ext4 filesystem is mounted.
> > 
> 
> As in it's mounted ext4 and not ext3? I didn't check the logs..

Yes, dmesg showed me it is mounted ext4 anyway.  I don't trust
/etc/mtab.

> > I suggest that /etc/mtab is created from /etc/fstab, and the root
> > filesystem was mounted by initrd before /etc/fstab is available, and
> > that /etc/fstab is ineffective.
> > 
> 
> I thought dracut would need to regenerate the initrd to pickup the new
> fstab settings before this would take effect. I've generated an image
> with the fix suggested in 11558 and the resulting image displays ext4
> when viewing mount's output. Is this a bug in mount? 

If you mean mount with no arguments, all this does is to read /etc/mtab,
and /etc/mtab is maintained by mount.

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James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/