Message when mounting ext4 boot partition, but works.

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sat Nov 21 16:14:33 UTC 2009


On Saturday 21 November 2009 14:16, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> On 21 Nov 2009 at 15:19, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> 
> From:           	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
> To:             	busybox at busybox.net
> Subject:        	Re: Message when mounting ext4 boot partition, but 
> works.
> Date sent:      	Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:19:15 +0100
> Copies to:      	"Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>
> 
> > On Saturday 21 November 2009 09:06, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> > > I just did a clean install of Fedora 12, and did a remote backup of the 
> > > system. I change the grub.conf to default to my g4l option which uses 
> > > busybox. After it boots, I can remotely access it and mount the boot partition 
> > > to reset the grub to boot from the default kernel before doing the image 
> > > backup. Seems Fedora 12 now creates the boot partition as ext4 instead of 
> > > the older ext2? 
> > > 
> > > No problem with mounting the ext4 partition, but it does show the following 
> > > message.
> > 
> > ... when you run what command exacty?
> 
> mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/local
> 
> In the past, this was the /boot partition and ext2 format, and now with Fedora 
> 12 with a clean install it is now an ext4 partition.

Since you did not give filesystem type, it will try every fs
in the order specified by /etc/filesystems or /proc/filesystems.

Apparently, ntfs is listed before ext4.

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