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   Aragorn to All   
   Re: Mandriva SA to transfer distro to an   
   26 May 12 22:44:25   
   
   From: stryder@telenet.be.invalid   
      
   On Saturday 26 May 2012 19:07, Adam conveyed the following to   
   alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
      
   > I'll have make sure each one I install can r/w ext4 on other   
   > partitions, and also what's involved in converting an ext3   
   > partition to ext4.  Most of my data directories are still ext3.   
      
   ext3 can be converted in-place to ext4 using /sbin/tune2fs, but with the   
   connotation that your _existing_ files on the converted partition will   
   not make use of extents yet until you've copied them all over to   
   somewhere else, deleted everything on the partition, and then copied   
   them all back again.   
      
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