On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 08:08:58AM -0400, James Laska wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 01:16 -0700, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > One thing that needs to be clarified is how the availability of ext4 > > will > > affect install decisions for systems already running F10. Although I > > did > > not install to HD, when F11 is released the decision will need to be > > made to > > switch over to ext4 or not for at least some of the partitions on the > > system > > - at present I use / and /opt as separate partitions with /home as a > > subdirectory of /opt - without a /boot separate partition then I guess > > the > > only option will be to keep the root partition as ext3 for the > > present > > since grub won't honour ext4 yet. However if the main HD was > > re-partitioned > > to make a new /boot partition then I guess /boot left as ext3 with > > anaconda > > reformatting the root partition as ext4 for the install will be a way > > forward? > > Rahul has written a great FAQ around the transition to ext4 at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ext4_in_Fedora_11 that should address > your questions. You're encouraged to take a look and provide feedback > on the talk page or the previous thread [1]. David Nalley, the beat writer for file systems in the F11 release notes, said he'd make sure this page was referenced in the release notes as well. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
