Convert ext3 to ext4
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Mon Mar 30 13:55:34 UTC 2009
Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2009-03-30, 01:31 GMT, Mario Chacon wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Use the installation CD/DVD/LiveCD/etc. and boot into Rescue
> mode. Then you have your system with your
> root-fs-when-really-booted being something else than /. Do
> changes there, and reboot. Check four times that /etc/fstab is
> correct.
and don't forget to remake your initrd.
FWIW there is supposed to be an ext3->ext4 migration via anaconda if you
boot with "ext4migrate" on the cmdline.
-Eric
> Matěj
>
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