Ext4 FAQ

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue May 5 21:58:29 UTC 2009


On 05/06/2009 02:21 AM, Bob Gustafson wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to decouple the upgrade to ext4 from the Anaconda
> upgrade to F11. Some folks might like to upgrade to ext4 before the F11
> upgrade, others would like to upgrade after their F11 upgrade is
> successful. Perhaps also after /boot can be ext4 too.

Your question is actually already answered in the FAQ but I will explain
again. Anaconda retains the Ext3 filesystem on a upgrade unless there is
a specific option "ext4migrate" passed to it. The FAQ explains the
procedure for the manual migration as well.

> I'm for running ext4 upgrade separately from Fn -> F11.
> 
> Is there anything in F11 that absolutely depends on ext4??

Nothing.

Rahul




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