Will Woods wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 09:40 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Frank Murphy wrote: >>> Valent Turkovic wrote: >>> >>>>> ext4 only available in DVD >>>> Seams strange... why? >>> Beacuse the livecd only DD the image to h\d, live cd is ext3. >>> There is a discussion somewhere, but can't recall. >>> >> there was a problem (now finally fixed) with the livecd creation hanging >> on ext4, so the livecd image had to be ext3; hence an install from >> livecd also had to be ext3. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484522 is the bug in > question; Eric, if it's fixed, could you update the bug? oops ... done! > Oh, and by the way.. if you're like me, and you're installing from the > Live image anyway, you might think: "Hey, I'll migrate the filesystem > after the install finishes, before I reboot into the new system". Nice > idea, but if you don't rebuild the initrd after migrating the rootfs to > ext4, the system won't boot. Yeah, found that out the hard way. > > The steps go something like: > 1) mount -t ext4 $rootdev /mnt/tmp > 2) bind-mount dev+proc+sys, chroot /mnt/tmp > 3) edit /etc/fstab and change the entry for your root device to ext4 > 4) mount /boot and recreate initrd > 5) exit chroot, umount /mnt/tmp > 6) tune2fs -O extents $rootdev > > ..yeah, it's kind of complicated. You're better off getting a different > installer image, or waiting for Beta. Also ... 'migrating' at this point doesn't gain you a lot; only new files after this will be written in extents format. -Eric -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
