On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 02:40:51PM -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > ext4 will be available as a partitioning option as of tomorrow's daily > > builds. > > I'm looking forward to this. I've been looking forward to ext4 for > years. I could do an install from scratch, but I'm hoping that I can > "upgrade" my existing ext3 to ext4 as you can going from ext2 to ext3.
Yes, as the end of http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto says: To convert an existing ext3 filesystem to use ext4, use the command $ tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/DEV WARNING: Once you run this command, the filesystem will no longer be mountable using the ext3 filesystem! After running this command, you MUST run fsck: $ fsck -pf /dev/DEV NOTE: by doing so, new files will be created in extents format, but this will not convert existing files. However, they can be transparently read by Ext4. WARNING: It is NOT recommended to resize the inodes using resize2fs, as this is known to corrupt some filesystems. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
