ext3fs crash

[Rainer Hattenhauer]

Hi,

another problem with fedora-core test2:

Some processes which origins I couldn't explain produced heavy CPU-load
(unfortunately I didn't noted their names, one of them was called fam, so
far I remember), so I tried to reboot the system. During reboot sequence,
there was a message like "couldn't unmount root filesystem".

Booting again, the filesystem check gave a message that the ext3fs is
corrupted. Fixing didn't succeed by the automatic sequence, so I rebooted
again with <Ctrl>+<d>.

And now, every time I boot the system, the root file system is mounted as
ext2fs, message at boot up like that:

EXT-fs warning ... ext2_read_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2

When trying the command "mount", root is shown as ext3, but when I try cat
/proc/mounts, you can see clearly that is mounted indeed as ext2.

Any ideas how to fix the ext3fs ? Perhaps deleting the old journal (how?)

I've allready booted up knoppix live cd and tried to fix the problem with
ext3fs.fsck, but there are no problems reported, the filesystem seemed to be
o.k., I was able to mount the partition under knoppix as ext3, it works
without problems.

Any ideas how to fix ext3 under fedora-core ?

Rainer