[mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] non-Xv display support in CVS.

andy s sul404d at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 8 05:07:49 UTC 2003


A little-known trick: if you change the fstab filesystem-type entry to
"ext3,ext2" the mount operation will attempt mounting as ext3 and then
fallback to ext2.


#if Unit3 /* Mar 06, 12:51 */
> It can't hurt, and may prevent a lot of problems if this happens again. 
> I'd give ext3 a try, simply because you can switch back and forth from 
> ext2 to ext3 with no problems in about a minute. There should be docs 
> for your distro of choice on how to do this, but it's usually as simple 
> as running "tune2fs -j /dev/hdaX", and then changing /etc/fstab's entry 
> to ext3.
#endif /* unit3 at demoni.ca */


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