ext4 or ext3

[Eric Tanguy]

Le 10/06/2009 19:45, Jussi Lehtola a écrit :
> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 18:32 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote:
>    
>> Le 10/06/2009 15:50, Richard Shaw a écrit :
>>      
>>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Eric Tanguy
>>> <eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr>  wrote:
>>>          How to see if the partition is ext3 or ext4 ? When i try to
>>>          see the partition in gparted it's said lvm2 but that's all.
>>>          Thanks
>>>          Eric
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't have my Fedora system in front of me at work but (in Gnome)
>>> it's something like "System->Administration->Logical Volume
>>> Manager". If you select the logical volume you'll see a bunch of
>>> info on the right side including the file system format.
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>        
>> I already tried this. I see really a bunch of info but ican't see the
>> file system format.
>> Eric
>>      
>
> You can see with
> $ mount
> as what format everything is mounted as. You can mount ext3 as ext4 but
> not the other way around. Of course, this doesn't help you determining
> what format the partition really has. To do that, you need to
> # tune2fs -l /dev/partition
> and look at the "Filesystem features".
>
> $ man tune2fs
> tells you that ext4-only features are ununit_bg and flex_bg. If you see
> these your partition is ext4, if not it can be mounted as ext3.
>    
Thanks it works fine.
Eric

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