How to format /home to ext4 ?

Martin Sourada martin.sourada at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 14:27:09 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 21:13 -0700, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> just did an upgrade to fedora 11 updating fedora10.  In the process I
> lost
> the root logon which I had with F10.
> 
> Without the root logon, I am unable to use gparted to unmount /home
> and to
> reformat /home to use ext4
> 
> I realize that the desire to stop a gui logon of root is important,
> but
> there are many many tools in gnome and kde that root can make use of,
> and
> save substantial labor. Sudo does not provide root privileges to
> gnome.
> 
> Guys, don't take away root logon, as I already configured Fedora10 to
> allow
> it. The F11 update took that away.
> 
> I am hoping that with the live CD I can do the reformat of /home,
> (which
> is backed up in it's entirety on /opt)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Leslie
> 
> PS. Am I the only one having problems with very very slow responses?
> Firefox will not start, and authenticate is broken.  Lets fix the
> convert to
> Ext4 issue first.
>  
> 
> 
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> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> 
> Leslie
> 
> 
> 
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