Another interesting problem!
When I laid out my partitions for my new 10.2, I mistakenly specified 3.5
instead of 3.6 as the reiserfs version. I was afraid that 3.6 might not be
compatible with my 9.0 SuSE.
After completing the install, I found out that 3.6 IS compatible with the 2.4
nucleus. Moreover, 3.5 does not support acl and attr mount options specified
in fstab. The latter problem apparently induced Linux to relocate my /home
from hdb6 to hdb5, the root partition!
(I have 10.2 running on two logical partitions on a slave drive, way beyond the
8k cylinder limit. Incredibly, grub takes it all in stride! Isn't progress
nice?!)
Throwing caution to the wind, I used my 9.0 system to "fix" 10.2! I:
* mounted hdb6 with -o conv, then
* copied the /home subdirectories from hdb5 to hdb6
* changed /home on hdb5 to /home_hdb5
* created a new /home (to serve as mount point only)
* let 10.2 fstab mount hdb6 as /home
Well, 10.2 still works, oddly enough. But I'm not sure why. I don't know
whether the reiserfs version has actually changed. I can't find any file
utilities that actually list the version -- as far as I can see, fsck doesn't
do it, reiserfstune doesn't do it. What SHOULD I have done, and how can I find
out what version I have?
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