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From: Thomas Bach <blox@tiscali.de>
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Subject: Re: Workaround for ReiserFS on root-filesystem
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 21:57:48 +0200
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Daniel Andersen wrote:
>>I use ReiserFS for my root-filesystem while trying to upgrade to a newer
>>kernel-version (still using 2.4.20) I got a error, that / could not be
>>remounted read/write. After googling a bit I stumbled over the fact that
>>ReiserFS as root-filesystem doesn't work since version 2.4.22 (or
>>something like this).
>>
> Hmm.. It works perfectly fine for me with all 2.4.20-25 kernels, so you
> should not trust everything you find on google ;-)

I tried all kinds of versions (2.4.22, 2.4.25, 2.6.2 and as allready 
mentioned 2.6.5) non of them worked even after playing testing with all 
kinds of options...

> How big is your root partition? Which version of ReiserFS are you using?

The root partition is about 950Mb big (776 used...) and I am using
reiserfsprogs-3.6.11

		Thomas Bach
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