Enabling ext3

Discussion in 'HOWTO-Related Questions' started by PaulTomblin, Oct 31, 2006.

  1. PaulTomblin

    PaulTomblin New Member

    I've installed Xen 3.0.3 using the instructions from the HowtoForge (using the binary option). But when I boot up a domU, I get the following error:

    Code:
    EXT2-fs warning (device hda1): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
    VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem
    I found some instructions that say to use "mkinitrd -v -f with=ext3", however, those arguments don't work with the mkinitrd on Debian Sarge. Can somebody please explain how to do ext3 in my user domains?
     
  2. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    What's in domU's /etc/fstab?
     
  3. PaulTomblin

    PaulTomblin New Member

    I use ext3, since that's what the HowTo said to do.

    As a followup, I did a
    Code:
    mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-2.6.16-xen 2.6.16-xen
    and then added that initrd as a ramdisk in the xen configs, and now it seems to be mounting stuff as ext3.
     
  4. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    So it's working now?
     
  5. PaulTomblin

    PaulTomblin New Member

    Well, it says that disk is mounted with ext3, so yes, I guess you'd say it's working. I wish I had a bit more fine-grained control over what went in the initrd, but it's working and that's all I've got time to worry about right now.
     

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