Changing from ext3 to ext4

[shmuel siegel]

Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:13:03 +0200
> shmuel siegel <fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu> wrote:
>
>   
>> Way back when ext4 became official, we were told that we could change
>> to ext4 by mounting our ext3 partitions as ext4. Gparted is still
>> reporting my partition as ext3. Can this be safely changed without
>> losing data.
>>     
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ext4_in_Fedora_11#How_do_I_migrate_from_Ext3_to_Ext4.3F
>
> kevin
>   
Thanks. The tune2fs instruction was the necessary extra step. BTW, it 
wasn't necessary to unmount the partition for the tune2fs (couldn't do / 
otherwise). But had to reboot and do the fsck on the reboot (it was 
forced because of some checksum errors)