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On Jun 11, 2009, at 4:06 PM, david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org wrote:

>> david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
>>> - It could be that I'm using ext4, which might not have been a smart
>>> thing.
>>
>> This, or a hardware problem, seems most likely, given the mail  
>> tools are
>> all fairly mature and reliable. You might want to test this out
>> temporarily by symlinking the spool to another file system or an NFS
>> mount.
>
> That's an excellent suggestion. My MythTV recording partitions are  
> still
> ext3.  I'll look up tonight, but I assume there's a way to convert  
> an ext4
> partition to ext3.

Sort of. You won't get the benefits of delayed allocation, since that  
was done when you formatted the file system ext3, and only newly  
created files will take advantage of extents support.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ 
Ext4_in_Fedora_11#How_do_I_migrate_from_Ext3_to_Ext4.3F

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org










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