Citando Dr. Nikolaus Klepp <dr.klepp@???>:

> Anno domini 2020 Tue, 19 May 21:56:16 +0100
> ael scripsit:
>> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:35:22PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote:
>> On Tuesday 19 May 2020 at 22:30:50, ael wrote:
>>
>>> I am hoping to install beowulf onto a new laptop in a week or two.
>>> I use f2fs on several drives with good results, so I want to
>>> use it on the root partition. f2fs seems the obvious choice on ssd's.
>>
>> https://howtos.davidsebek.com/debian-f2fs.html may be what you need.
>
> Has anybody done this successfully on beowulf? I tried today but the
> kernel crashed - last message was something about it not beeing able
> to mount the root filesystem. The kernel I used was from the
> "official" rpi repository, it has f2fs built in.
>  

I haven tried yet with f2fs, but its in my list :)
Check if you compiled the kernel with f2fs support, check if rootfs is
formated with f2fs, and if the fstab partition type is f2fs..