Filesystems

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Sun Apr 10 14:22:25 UTC 2005


On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 08:20:49AM +0330, Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote:

> When the system boots up, it reports that:
> 
>  File system type is ext2fs, ....

That message is from GRUB, which reads the filesystem as ext2 in order to
load the necessary data to bootstrap the system.

Linux mounts the filesystem as ext3.

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 - mdz




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