to ext4 or not...

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 06/21/2009 02:30 PM, 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=20
> leaving /home directory is untouched.
>
> But now there is ext4. So, should I leave /home as an ext3 file system?=
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> Or should I go through the trouble of backing up /home, reformatting to=
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> ext4 and restoring? Currently / is now ext4.
>
>  =20
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.=20

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