Jaunty experiences?

Mike.lifeguard mikelifeguard at fastmail.fm
Mon Apr 27 20:58:43 UTC 2009


I'm actually in the middle of an upgrade right now. I was thinking of
using ext4 - how does one convert the filesystem? I guess there is an
option to do that in Gparted - is that what I should be looking for?

-Mike

On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 16:24 -0300, Doooh Head wrote:

> > I think the error 2 was caused by my not repartitioning the drive,
> and
> > just using the old partitions but formatting them. Apparently older
> > versions of ubuntu used a 128B inode size for ext3, and 9.04 uses
> > inodes of 256B. A quick reinstall of grub to the MBR fixed that
> > problem right up.
> 
> 
> Oh that was something I attempted as well since I had to reinstall.  I
> reformatted my main partition to use the new ext4 file system.  From
> what I've read its supposed to be faster but may have some issues.  So
> far its been ok.
> 
> Doooh
> 
> 
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