Ashok Gautham J. wrote:
I normally like bleeding edge stuff. But I am yet to see a distro with
ext4 support in its installer. I run Debian Sid. How do I get ext4 running
on the same system given that all my partitions are ext3 (/ /boot /home)? I
suppose I should format a new drive as ext4 and install something like
gentoo or a fresh sid in it
Formatting would give you the major benefits but you don't have to do
that necessarily. Ext4 is backward compatible. You can mount a existing
Ext3 partition with additional parameters and future writes will be in
Ext4 format but this also means you can't go back and not lose the new
files.
Also note that Ext4 support in the kernel and within distributions (
development versions, Fedora 9 etc) is considered experimental since
user space integration is still incomplete.
Rahul
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