On Monday 04 December 2006 15:11, Dale wrote: > Randy Barlow wrote: > > Jerry McBride wrote: > >> The ext2 fs was formatted with "mke2fs" and mounted with "-t ext2 -o > >> sync" > >> The ext3 fs was formatted with "mke2fs -j" and mounted with "-t ext3 > >> -o sync" > >> The ext4 fs was formatted with "mke2fs -j" and mounted with "-t > >> ext4dev -o sync" > >> The ext4 fs was formatted with "mke2fs -j" and mounted with "-t > >> ext4dev -o sync,extents" > > > > So the only thing that will make an FS ext4 is mounting it as ext4? > > Does this mean that you could take an existing ext3 FS and just plain > > mount it as ext4? > > > > R > > and once you do mount ext4 there is no turning back?? > > Dale > > :-) :-) :-)
Not true. Once you mount ext4 AND use the "extents" mount option and THEN write to the ext4 partition... THEN there's no going back... -- -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
