ext4

Doug Hunley doug at hunley.homeip.net
Wed Oct 14 07:12:59 PDT 2009


On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 22:17, GMAIL - James McDonald
<james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> I tried to boot from Knoppix 5.11 and it couldn't read my ext4 partitions so
> it pays to understand what you lose when moving to it.

This should only happen if you started using extents, or created the
fs as ext4 from the get-go. A 'migrated' ext3->ext4 will still be read
by just about everything until you start using the advanced features
which changes the disk format.

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