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Stephen Adler wrote: > 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. I would vote for a resounding "No". If you'll remember, I posted a few weeks ago how my wife's mail file was getting clobbered and corrupted after rebuilding my server on Ubuntu Jaunty and using ext4 for my root partition. Moving /var/mail to an ext3 partition fixed the problem completely, and that's all I changed. Other than setting up a process to back it up every two hours ;) I'm really stuck now, though, because there's no way to get my root partition back to ext3. Since it's /, it's got /dev and /proc and other things you can't just tar up. So I've symlinked some critical things like /var/mail to other filesystems.
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