On 16/07/10 21:09, Tony Travis wrote: > On 16/07/10 20:53, Rob Beard wrote: >> [...] >> Now at the moment I've got my drive formatted to EXT3, I gather I can >> convert from EXT3 to EXT4 (but I'm going to reformat the drive anyway) >> but I wondered basically if I might be better going for EXT4 this time? > > Hello, Rob. > > Yes, you can convert from ext3 to ext4, but you do not get 'extents' for > the existing files. Extents are one of the major advantages of ext4, so > I would definitely reformat your drive instead of converting. > > Another advantage of ext4 is it's a lot quicker to fsck filesystems. >
Is the Extents where it allocates space for big files? (I found something about this when googling about EXT4). I wonder too if it's possible to go back to EXT3 from EXT4 like it is possible to go back from EXT3 to EXT2 (how I understand it, EXT3 is EXT2 with journalling). Ta, Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
