diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/files/obmc-init.sh b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/files/obmc-init.sh
index 2a32d26ffc..a8cc76d440 100644
--- a/obmc-init.sh
+++ b/obmc-init.sh
@@ -287,6 +287,14 @@ then
 	fi
 fi
 
+# Ensure that we clean our rwfs on version change
+if mount $rwdev $rwdir -t $rwfst -o $rwopts; then
+	if ! cmp "$rwdir"/os-release /etc/os-release 2>/dev/null; then
+		echo "RWFS from older BMC version, cleaning"
+		touch $trigger
+	fi
+	umount "$rwdir"
+fi
 if grep -w clean-rwfs-filesystem $optfile
 then
 	echo "Cleaning of read-write overlay filesystem requested."
@@ -411,6 +419,9 @@ HERE
 	debug_takeover "$msg"
 fi
 
+# Keep track of the last version to use this rwfs
+cp /etc/os-release "$rwdir"/os-release
+
 # Empty workdir; do not remove workdir itself for it will fail to recreate it if
 # RWFS is full
 if [ -d $work ]