On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:15:19PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
Will Woods wrote:
> Oh, and by the way.. if you're like me, and you're installing from the
> Live image anyway, you might think: "Hey, I'll migrate the filesystem
> after the install finishes, before I reboot into the new system". Nice
> idea, but if you don't rebuild the initrd after migrating the rootfs to
> ext4, the system won't boot. Yeah, found that out the hard way.
>
Also ... 'migrating' at this point doesn't gain you a lot; only new
files after this will be written in extents format.
Lastly keep in mind (it's mentioned in the release notes, but bit at
least one friend) that you MUST have a separate ext2 or 3 /boot
partition at this point. The included grub won't boot ext4, so you have
to have that.
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Scott Robbins
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