On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 16:12 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 14:27 -0400, Will Woods wrote: > > 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. > > OK, that's clear enough, thanks. Actually it was a little less clear than I originally thought. I installed F11 as an upgrade to F10 and wasn't asked if I wanted to upgrade my filesystems to ext4. Only on revisiting the FAQ did I notice that I would have had to give the "ext4migrate" option to Anaconda. I had mistakenly assumed that this would be settable interactively. In fact I don't quite see why it isn't. poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
