ext3 to ext4

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:02 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

[snip]

>
> Alternately, if you wish you can convert the ext3 to ext4 w/o issues (in
> most cases) via:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ConvertFilesystemToExt4
> I've done this on multiple machines without issues.
>

But: (from the same link)

"Finally, one thing to note: Only files written after this conversion
will take full advantage of Ext4. Existing files will stay with the
Ext3 format. What this means on a practical level is that you will not
notice much of a speed increase right away, but as files get
re-written it will gradually speed up."

So I guess it would be better to create a new ext4 /home partition,
rsync  the [old]/home on it and then switch to the [new]/home in
fstab. It also should be noted that GParted has been reporting some
issues with older releases, as in
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

L.

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