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Re: IMPORTANT: Read this or your kludgey-installed machine will wedge when it next reboots!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Wed Jan 23 23:36:36 2002
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:36:30 -0500
Message-Id: <200201240436.XAA10708@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: alex_c@MIT.EDU
CC: kludgey-linux-testers@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <200201240421.XAA32724@opus.mit.edu> (message from Alex Coventry
on Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:21:13 -0500)
I was just about to send mail about this. (Anything installed with the
LCS Athena installer loses as well.) The basic problem is that the
current code does *not* deal with symbolic tags in /etc/fstab when it
switches / and /boot to ext3. (There's a patch in for 9.0.24 to do this,
which will be available rather soon.)
>Unfortunately, the latest update to Athena breaks it. If you
>haven't noticed any problems with it yet, please run the following
>command as root NOW:
>
>/sbin/tune2fs -j /dev/hdaX
>
>where you should replace X with the number of your root partition.
Also for the /boot filesystem, if it's separate. This won't work with
the tune2fs that's part of 9.0.19, though, so you'll need to manually
update to 9.0.23 ("update_ws 9.0.23"), then run "tune2fs -j <various>"
before you reboot. If you autoupdate to 9.0.23, you lose.
Derek: tune2fs -j builds a journal for the relevant filesystem. 9.0.23
switches / and /boot to ext3, which (when it boots, anyway) rocks.
