[olug] Filesystems

T. J. Brumfield enderandrew at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 05:47:38 UTC 2009


I don't know of any way, but if you want to migrate fully, you can
shrink an ext3 partition down, make a new ext4 partition, copy the
files so they are written properly on the ext4 partition, mount the
ext4 partition, wipe the ext3 partition, and then resize the ext4
partition.

-- T. J. Brumfield

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Chad Homan<choman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently converted one of my systems from ext3 to ext4.  According to the
> "guide", over time,
> the files left at ext3 will migrate to ext4 via updates.  I would like to
> know is this.  Is there a
> way to "interrogate" my file system and figure out the ext3 vs ext4 status
> of the HDD.
>
>
> Chad, CISSP
>
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