unknown filesystem type 'debugfs'

Submitted by Anonymous

on March 22, 2007 - 3:42am

hello

i have this error:

...# mount -t debugfs none_debugfs /proc/sys/debug
mount: unknown filesystem type 'debugfs'

if a look into /proc/filesystems ... debugfs is not there indeed. but how can i have it ?

thank you!

saidone

March 22, 2007 - 4:26am

Make sure these options are enabled in your kernel:

CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y

milindchoudhary

April 2, 2007 - 5:22am

Debugfs is by default not included in the kernel image
which is shipped with most of the distributions

You will have to compile a customized kernel

more on compiling your kernel @
Book by greg kh

Linux kernel in a nutshell
www.kroah.com/lkn