there is no problem what so ever with a mix of file systems on linux, so you can simply continue with your ext3 /home if you want. paul <div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/23 david walcroft <<a href="mailto:d_j_w46@bigpond.net.au">d_j_w46@bigpond.net.au</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I am going to clean install fc12 but I don't know how to handle this situation,my /home is ext3fs and I want format the rest of my directories as ext4fs,will the two fs get on together or am I going to format everything as ext4 and use my /home backup. If I use my dvd backup,what command do I use to transfer the data from the dvd to my harddrive and do I have to do it in ctrl-alt-F2 CLI david -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </blockquote></div>