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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] weirdness with the mounting of /
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:41:40
Message-Id: 58965d8a0906120941m4404ddcy7f6f1472926f91af@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] weirdness with the mounting of / by Doug Hunley
1 On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Doug Hunley<doug@×××××××××××××.net> wrote:
2 > I'm having some weirdness with my '/' mount. Here's the line from /etc/fstab:
3 > douglas ~ # grep 'md3' /etc/fstab
4 > /dev/md3 / ext4 noatime,journal_checksum,defaults 0 1
5 >
6 > Yet, the output of mount shows:
7 > douglas ~ # mount
8 > rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
9 > /dev/root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
10 >
11 > As you can see, it doesn't show journal_checksum as being one of the
12 > mount options nor does it show noatime. Why? For that matter, why is
13 > it listed as 'rootfs' *and* '/dev/root' and not '/dev/md3' ?
14 >
15 > My grub config:
16 > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/md3 rootfstype=ext4
17 >
18 > Thanks in advance for cluebatting me.
19
20 I think your root is mounted before fstab comes into play... You may
21 want to look into the "rootflags" option in your grub kernel
22 commandline for passing the mount options for your root partition.

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[gentoo-user] Re: weirdness with the mounting of / Doug Hunley <doug@×××××××××××××.net>