[pkg-fso-maint] rootfstype Re: OpenMoko FreeRunner Debian installation report

[Steffen Moeller]

Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 03:29:10PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
>> I was less happy to hear about the default of a ext2-mount of the ext3-formatted
>> partition, which Lionel has previously reported.
> 
>> The defaults are
> 
>> SD_PART1_FS=${SD_PART1_FS:-ext2}
>> SD_PART1_SIZE=${SD_PART1_SIZE:-8}
>> SD_PART2_FS=${SD_PART2_FS:-ext3}
>> SD_SWAP_SIZE=${SD_SWAP_SIZE:-0}
> 
>> and I cannot see what is wrong with this, except that the docs should possibly be changed
>> for the defaults of the second partion's FS. The PART2 is not placed into /etc/fstab by
>> default as it seems.
> 
> That's not it, it is configure-uboot.sh which sets
> "rootfstype=ext2". Changing that to rootfstype=ext3 solves the
> problem.

Ah. ok. I never touched the uboot parts since I don't use it. I recall that there was a
constraint towards ext2 somehow - whoever could clarify the issue for the archives
(again?), please step forward.

Cheers,

Steffen