topic ONTAP Tools appliance still uses ext3. in VMware Solutions Discussions

ONTAP Tools appliance still uses ext3.

Oli71 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:59:57 GMT

Hi,

Do you have technical limitations in running the appliance with ext3? We have been wondering why the appliance didn't want to start anymore. It was expecting a user input due to an fsck error on the root partition, hiding the output on a different TTY didn't help either!

An upgrade to ext4 would not be too much.

Regards,

Oli

Re: ONTAP Tools appliance still uses ext3.

ChanceBingen — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 12:33:48 GMT

Technically I can't think of any reason not to.

I'll pass along your request to our engineering teams.

Re: ONTAP Tools appliance still uses ext3.

Oli71 — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 12:54:30 GMT

Would it be possible to add some keyboard mapping for non-qwerty users?

Regards,

Oli