Converting ext3 to ext4 resulting in loss of data?

[James Hogarth]

On 11 August 2010 09:24, Christopher Rob JONES
<christopher.rob.jones at cern.ch> wrote:
>
>> No. I'm sure that I saw the format tickbox is unchecked on /home
>
> Does the installer even offer the option to upgrade an ext3 partition to
> ext4 ? I thought there only options where to leave a partition as is
> (either mounted or not) or to repartition as a given filesystem type ? I
> might be wrong but my bet is you did (unknowingly) ask it to reformat
> the partition....
>
> Chris
>

When I last looked at the installer so far as I can remember the GUI
says to format as X filesystem that you pick from and not 'label as'
...

Additionally after saying okay to that back on the main screen the
'format' box is force ticked and cannot be unticked if you have set a
format as X filesystem... but I *think* that the tick is greyed out as
it cannot be changed... and consequently might look like it is
unticked due to being very feint...

Of course this discussion (and potential bug?) might all be moot given
the new look Ubiquity installer in 10.10 ....

James