Conversion of ext4 to ext3 file system ?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Aug 13 16:03:37 UTC 2009


On 08/13/2009 09:33 PM, Jay Mistry wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com <mailto:pocallaghan at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 12:39 +0530, Jay Mistry wrote:
>     > I would like to convert / & /home partitions that are ext4 to ext3.
>     > Can this be done without loss of data ?
> 
>     https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ext4_in_Fedora_11#What_about_backward.2Fforward_compatibility.3F
> 
>     poc
> 
>     --
> 
> 
> Ok, backward-incompatible.
> 
> Thanks,

In some ways. You can mount a Ext3 partition as Ext4 and it will
recognize and work with it just fine.

Rahul




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