LVM, 'ext3' to 'reiserfs' conertion on '/' on software RAID5

[Tim Writer]

Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hi TLUG!

[much about reiserfs and LVM snipped]

>    The problem is that when I boot into the OS proper something somewhere is
>    still telling something to do with LVM that the file system is still ext3
>    and thus it throws a kernel panic. I have edited '/etc/fstab', '/etc/mtab'
>    and '/etc/blkid.tab' to read 'reiserfs' instead of the original 'ext3'. Am
>    I missing a file somewhere? Is there a command I need to run to tell
>    '/etc/lvmtab' or '/etc/lvmtab.d/root' that the filesystem has changed? Am
>    I missing something all together different?

Is reiserfs builtin to the kernel.  If not (and perhaps even if it is), you
may need to build a new initrd with mkinitrd.

HTH,

P.S. It's generally not recommended to put / on LVM since it can make
recovery from disk failure difficult if not impossible.

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