From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PXZyQ-0002XT-9n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:52:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00BFBE055C; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:50:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8562E055C for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:50:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so9304673wwi.10 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:50:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=tfwfkVh5FaNXQOdC9OgEwrDRpjDKwLvH4g5F7MLlhzs=; b=RnHDVNDgrIOkhAdIyWZtYEnJOwpNHc61ULhY/2Np3RT0FzgeuJshTbpcYz5diVWbOq 4yMXjDn75DUlRu3d1wI7FN0OjPs4J/ykMx3dHrisUwItuo230eeuH63jqSqKBzJ5O3kU wyrkFOwHrZQrBTmMUTkUQsEKtQx5daBWE/ynU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=aIN80IA6j0AJ4fvu1nXpcYWkuZekZfaj9AoMC2IhRFTWPOvdhp7vaQEjOkxkHJ+wlw mA5X1jxA0O6/ZuCyrmIm24u3RtPm4oUdKTNnkc6BloQoE933Be+odALRbGNTO37ixo00 1YwKmbMyALuSQ+pT//AuFY6sO2wlcMQ1XElgM= Received: by 10.216.185.203 with SMTP id u53mr2770975wem.114.1293544256681; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:50:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e12sm6514180wer.36.2010.12.28.05.50.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:50:55 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Options null for ext4 as root fs Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:50:49 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1677405.AKOipRAP2s"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201012281350.59862.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 246bcbe2-6960-4b1d-af78-ea9a10ece096 X-Archives-Hash: 18337466909ad91236f7633c87e1dff0 --nextPart1677405.AKOipRAP2s Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable After multiple fs corruptions and nothing untoward shown by smartctl (I thi= nk)=20 I decided to move to ext4. Now when I boot I see a message about my / fs which says Opts: (null) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D dmesg | grep -i EXT4 Command line: root=3D/dev/sda7 rootfstype=3Dext4 Kernel command line: root=3D/dev/sda7 rootfstype=3Dext4 EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 8:7. EXT4-fs (sda7): re-mounted. Opts: (null) EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) EXT4-fs (sda8): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) EXT4-fs (sda9): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) EXT4-fs (sda7): re-mounted. Opts: commit=3D0 EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: commit=3D0 EXT4-fs (sda8): re-mounted. Opts: commit=3D0 EXT4-fs (sda9): re-mounted. Opts: commit=3D0 EXT4-fs (sda7): re-mounted. Opts: commit=3D0 EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: commit=3D0 EXT4-fs (sda8): re-mounted. Opts: commit=3D0 EXT4-fs (sda9): re-mounted. Opts: commit=3D0 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D What is the meaning of Opts: (null) ? All ext4 partitions were created with a number of options; e.g. =46ilesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index fil= etype=20 needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file uninit_bg dir_nlink=20 extra_isize but default mount options are shown as: Default mount options: (none) Should I be defining something in fstab? (currently I only have noatime). =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1677405.AKOipRAP2s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk0Z60MACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZ4SwCg62tLbp2Ub+ADZoPa6RD6IsHk N/QAn2D5/eVtpIw9xCMnSl7wdUTgbR5n =VDFB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1677405.AKOipRAP2s--