On 19/07/10 13:27, Tony Travis wrote: > On 16/07/10 21:18, Rob Beard wrote: >> [...] >> Is the Extents where it allocates space for big files? (I found >> something about this when googling about EXT4). >> >> I wonder too if it's possible to go back to EXT3 from EXT4 like it is >> possible to go back from EXT3 to EXT2 (how I understand it, EXT3 is EXT2 >> with journalling). > > Hello, Rob. > > Tyler has already answered your question about extents, and I also think > you would be best to avoid converting your ext3 filesystems unless you > have no alternative. > > I was faced with a similar situation with our ext3 filesystems, but I > decided to backup, reformat as ext4 and restore. Although this was more > work than converting ext3, I think it is worth it in the longer term. > > HTH, > > Tony.
Yep thinking about it I agree with what you said. Okay it took a long time to backup (I left it running overnight) but the actual restore didn't take half as long and my machine is much snappier now. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
