Problem upgrading an offline computer

[MR ZenWiz]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 11 February 2011 17:20, Ioannis Vranos <cppdeveloper at ontelecoms.gr> wrote:
>>
>> Apart from the ext4's performance and anti-fragmentation improvements,
>> fscking an ext4 partition takes so short time, that is actually a
>> pleasure to run it! :-)
>
> Whilst that may well be true, I don't think it is sufficient reason to
> take down a working system and reformatting.
>

You don't have to do this to go from ext3 to ext4, but as I said, it's
optional, and there ought to be much more justification to take down a
working system - ever.