Re: ext3 filesystems - changes ??
Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.file-systems.ext3.user |
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On 04/12/2010 09:03 PM, Jeremy Dawson wrote: > > I hope this is a suitable forum for this question. > > I have RedHat9 installed on one partition. > > I have just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on another partition. When I had a > choice in the installation procedure, I chose ext3 (since I understood > that the RedHat partitions are ext3). > > Now I can mount the RedHat9 partitions from ubuntu, but trying to mount > the Ubuntu partitions from RedHat produces an uninformative error message. > > Why could this be ? Are there different variants of ext3 ? to some degree yes, there are some ext3 features which older kernels may not mount. dmesg likely tells you -something- about the problem - including the error message is always helpful, even if it's uninformative to you :) (the generic mount failure message is generally worthless, but the kernel should say something) -Eric > Thanks for any help > > Jeremy > > > _______________________________________________ > Ext3-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users