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[Jarod Wilson]

On Jun 11, 2009, at 5:13 PM, david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org wrote:

>> Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>> On Jun 11, 2009, at 4:06 PM, david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>> He wants to go backwards. I don't think that's possible.
>
> What I may have to do is boot off the livecd, tar up my / onto another
> disk, reformat /, untar onto it, and pray real hard.
>
> Should that work?

More or less, yeah. You'll need to remember to alter fstab and  
possibly your grub config a bit though.

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