Re: Oops in 2.5.6 and 2.5.7-pre1 - reiserfs?

Oleg Drokin
2002-03-14T17:03:59Z

Hello!

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:01:23PM +0000, Alex Walker wrote:

> Whilst I'm here... Is there a neat way to convert your root system from
> 3.5 to 3.6? I tried "mount -o remount,conv /" which gave no errors, but
> didn't actually convert it. I also tried adding conv to the options in
> /etc/fstab, but to similar effect... Do I have to copy to a different
> partition with a 3.6 format and use that as my root to do it?

I think you need to pass "rootflags=conv" option to your kernel.
That should work. Esp. if you do not use any kind of initrd.

Bye,
Oleg