[poky] Strange ext filesystem error

[Gary Thomas]

On 2011-10-26 10:44, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Gary Thomas<gary at mlbassoc.com>  wrote:
>> I've noticed this behaviour on my Poky/Yocto based systems.
>> First, I format some device, in this case an MMC card, as ext3
>> (yes, my kernel supports ext3)
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>>   # mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1
>> Then, when I go to mount it, I get this error:
>>   # mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /tmp/disk
>>   EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p1): warning: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
>>
>> Any ideas why?  How can I get ext3 file system working?
>
> Does your kernel support ext3? Otherwise you can try:

See above :-)

>
> $ mount -t ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /tmp/disk

This does work although forcing the file system type should not
be necessary, but I'll live with it.  This warning/error must have
something to do with the mount program (part of busybox).

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