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to ext4 or not...



Do you see any performance improvements at all?



On 06/21/2009 04:21 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 06/21/2009 02:30 PM, Stephen Adler wrote:
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>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I just upgraded my desktop to fedora 11. The way I set up my system is
>> with my home directory in a separate partition so that if I want to do
>> an upgrade by reinstalling fedora, I can then reformat / and /boot
>> leaving /home directory is untouched.
>>
>> But now there is ext4. So, should I leave /home as an ext3 file system?
>> Or should I go through the trouble of backing up /home, reformatting to
>> ext4 and restoring? Currently / is now ext4.
>>
>>
>>      
> No recommendations, but I just did that. When I resized my /home, LVM
> made it ext3. I just backed up /home, reformatted to ext4, and restored.
> Additionally, I have rsnapshot running as well as my previous backup
> script.
>
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