Re: Conversion to Ext4 in LVM

2010-11-16 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Didar Hossain wrote: > Personally, I would not recommend converting, but, rather creating a > separate partition > for ext4 to test it out. For my use case, in order to get the benefits for using ext4 over ext3, it worked better to create a new filesystem with ex

Re: Conversion to Ext4 in LVM

2010-11-15 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 11 November 2010 19:44:36 David Baron wrote: > The system-config-lvm UI offers the option to change filesystem type, i.e. > currently ext3, change to ext4. > > Can one/should one do this? As requested by one responder: What is the advantage of ext4 over ext3 and what variety of files/

Re: Conversion to Ext4 in LVM

2010-11-11 Thread Didar Hossain
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Doug wrote: > On 11/11/2010 12:44 PM, David Baron wrote: > >> The system-config-lvm UI offers the option to change filesystem type, i.e. >> currently ext3, change to ext4. >> >> Can one/should one do this? >> >> >> > > Someone tell us dummies what the difference a

Re: Conversion to Ext4 in LVM

2010-11-11 Thread Doug
On 11/11/2010 12:44 PM, David Baron wrote: The system-config-lvm UI offers the option to change filesystem type, i.e. currently ext3, change to ext4. Can one/should one do this? Someone tell us dummies what the difference and advantage is of ext4 over ext3, please. --doug -- Blessed are t

Re: Conversion to Ext4 in LVM

2010-11-11 Thread gun_smoke
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 07:44:36PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > The system-config-lvm UI offers the option to change filesystem type, i.e. > currently ext3, change to ext4. > > Can one/should one do this? You can convert from ext3 to ext4. I've done it. https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext

Conversion to Ext4 in LVM

2010-11-11 Thread David Baron
The system-config-lvm UI offers the option to change filesystem type, i.e. currently ext3, change to ext4. Can one/should one do this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:/