Convert ext3 to ext4

[Mario Chacon]

Ok, thank you...
How can I do it with the / partition? It's mounted and with a mounted unit I
get this warning:
WARNING!!!  Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause
SEVERE filesystem damage.
Is it possible to make it with the live cd alpha?

Salu2...
masch...

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com> wrote:

> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 20:26:56 -0300,
> >   Mario Chacon <the.masch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hello:
> >> I'm using fedora 11 for some days with ext3, now I want to try with
> ext4. Is
> >> it possible to convert all my ext3 partition to ext4?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4#head-3891522e0601162aab24c73c1f148a1e28c6a9d4
> >
>
> although note the caveats there.  Existing files will not change their
> disk format to use extents... so it's not quite the same as if you had
> just done ext4 from scratch.  Still worth testing, though, and should
> still be beneficial.
>
> -Eric
>
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