On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 11:50 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 21:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have put up a FAQ at > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ext4_in_Fedora_11 > > > > I will be expanding this over time. If you have other unanswered > > questions, do let me know. > > OK, here's one. The FAQ says "You can use the Anaconda boot option, > "ext4migrate" to automatically migrate from Ext3 to the new Ext4 > filesytem when upgrading from a previous release of Fedora". > > What does this mean in practice? Is the end result equivalent to backing > up my ext3 partition and restoring under ext4, or does it simply mount > the ext3 partition as ext4? It mounts as ext4 *and* enables the 'extents' feature. So the files written during the upgrade should be using extents - but not everything on the system gets rewritten. /home, for instance, will be essentially untouched. So.. it's a little fancier than just mounting as ext4, but less invasive and time-consuming than doing a full backup/restore. -w -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
