Re: [tlug] Argh ... no luck installing XFS ... help

["Jean-Christian Imbeault" <jean_christian@example.com>]

I tried migrating my current ext3 filesystem to xfs but botched it ... the 
instructions I followed talked about editing fstab but my fstab was a bit 
different (used labels).

I created a temp ext2 (hda10) partition and copied my / (hda2)to it and then 
had my kernel boot of the "new" /. That worked.

Then I turned the old / partition (hda2) into an xfs and copied all the / 
files back to it. Then I used e2label and xfs_admin -L to reblabel the new 
xfs as / but ...

My new xfs kernel boots but gives out with the following error:

/dev/hda2

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 
filesystem ....

And then drops me into Repair filesystem mode.

Why does the kernel expect an ext2 fs on /? I tried using xfs_admin -L to 
relabel /dev/hda2 as / (in case I did it wrong the first time) but I get:

xfs_admin: /dev/hda doesn't contain a mounted filesystem

So I then try and mount it but get:

mount: /dev/hda2 already mounted or /mnt/tmp busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda2 is already mounted on /mnt/tmp

So I then try to umount it but ...

#umount /mnt/tmp
umount: /dev/hda2: not mounted

What did I do wrong? How can I recover from my blunder? Help!

Jc


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