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victor9098
April 10th, 2009, 05:25 PM
Hi All,

With 9.04 just a few days away I just want to ask about the new ext4 file system. I hear it will allow much faster boot times and I am intending to select it when I am installing. Now my question...

I have a /home partition which is very useful for fresh installs every 6 months! If I change this (and my root partition) to ext4 is this effectively a complete re-format of my disc so anything in /home will be gone?

If that is the case, can I just 'copy and paste' in a back-up of my /home partition after install or are there other issues I should be aware of?

Thanks!

Grognot
April 10th, 2009, 06:57 PM
Not 100% sure what you're saying :P But yes switching to ext4 will require a complete reformat and yes your data will be gone. You can backup you data before you reformat though.