[klibc] ext3 reported as minix by fstype
Ulf Karlsson
ulfc at life.csbnet.se
Fri Mar 31 14:22:39 PST 2006
Hi,
In the fstype tool there is a problem if the lower 16 bits of number of free
inodes in a ext3 filesystem happens to match minix filesystem magic since
these fields use the same offset. This will cause an ext3 filesystem to be
reported as a minix filesystem.
I notified the ubuntu people too since they use fstype there to detect the
type of the root filesystem and it seems to be a "common" problem over there.
It renders an ubuntu system unusable until you bump the free inode counter.
Ulf
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