Conversion of ext4 to ext3 file system ?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 16:18:46 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 21:33 +0530, Jay Mistry wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 12:39 +0530, Jay Mistry wrote:
>         > I would like to convert / & /home partitions that are ext4
>         to ext3.
>         > Can this be done without loss of data ?
>         
>         
>         https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ext4_in_Fedora_11#What_about_backward.2Fforward_compatibility.3F
>         
>         poc
>         
>         --
> 
> Ok, backward-incompatible.

Not exactly. It depends on whether or not you enabled extents when using it as ext4.

poc




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