From: Bob PuffNLE (PuffNLE)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 23:32:59 CST

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What changed in the filesystem that they are not compatible? Should it not be
called something else if this new "ext3" is not readable by existing ext3
systems??

Bob

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From: Vincent Danen <vdanenmandrakesoft.com>
To: discussmandrakesecure.net
Sent: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:05:28 -0700
Subject: Re: [discuss] 9.1 partitions not mountable by other distros???

> On Fri Mar 28, 2003 at 02:54:37PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
>
> > > Does anyone know more about this advisory? It sound very strange to me.
> > > What was changed in the ext2, ext3 partition format that you are not
> > > able to mount them any more???? Does that for example mean, that 9.1
> > > partition cannot be mounted with rescue discs like tomsrtbt????
> > >
> >
> > As far as I can remember, you can still mount them, you just can fsck
> > them. And in a normal installation, initscripts will not mount a
> > partition that can not be fsck'ed. But rescue tools should still be able
> > to mount them.
> >
> > Of course, a Mandrake installation CD makes a good rescue tool, just hit
> > F1 at the syslinux screen, and type "rescue" at the prompt.
> >
> > Note, this also works for hd.img and network.img, so you can actually
> > boot the rescue image from the network etc.
>
> Yeah, there is some "missing parameter"... I'm not quite certain of the
> technical aspects of it. I did test it with 8.2/PPC and 9.1/PPC...
> first boot of 8.2/PPC would not mount (automatically) the 9.1
> partition, but once I installed e2fsprogs, it was possible to do so
automatically.
>
> Like you said, there are probably ways to do it without the
> automation (ie. rescue disks and such), but since that wasn't really
> the scope of the advisory, no testing was done. This was more of a
> "convenience" update for people migrating to 9.1 who may have needed
> to boot into 9.0 or 8.2 and do maintenance/setup work from there
> before switching over to 9.1 live.
>
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