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jayanramesh
April 9th, 2009, 11:16 AM
Dear friends,
Is it possible to change from ext3 to ext4 in jaunty? and please tell me how? if it is possible.
Thanks

Partyboi2
April 9th, 2009, 01:47 PM
Yes it is, this (http://smartgeeks.co.cc/wp/archives/199) is the guide I used.

jayanramesh
April 9th, 2009, 05:44 PM
Thank you so much Partyboi2.Love to see you again.

whoop
April 9th, 2009, 07:32 PM
This is what I did:

Booted jaunty live-cd on a system running jaunty and ext3 (on /dev/sda1 in my case), opened a terminal:



sudo bash
tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/sda1
e2fsck -pf /dev/sda1
mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt
nano /mnt/etc/fstab


In fstab I changed "ext3" to "ext4" for the partition I converted (and saved the changes).

The distribution upgrade does not seem to install the new grub stage. So I did the following to refresh grub (again from a live-cd):



sudo bash
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
grub-install /dev/sda --root-directory=/mnt --recheck

jayanramesh
April 10th, 2009, 09:22 AM
Dear Whoop,
So much,thank you so much.Great!I've done it.