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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:03:37 +0300
From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Alex Walker <alex@x3ja.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Oops in 2.5.6 and 2.5.7-pre1 - reiserfs?
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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
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