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On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 06:32:59PM +0200, Martin Herrman wrote: |
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> Will you eventually be fine when just converting an existing system, |
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> or is a reinstall preferred? (which is much more effort) |
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It appears that a reinstall or copying files all around would be more |
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effort :-p. |
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> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ConvertFilesystemToExt4 |
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> Does a raid setup require extra attention? (I'm running /dev/md1 in |
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> raid-1 for /boot and /dev/md3 in raid-0 for /) Do I have to convert |
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> /dev/md3, or the /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3? |
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If /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3 both constitute /dev/md3, then you should |
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run any conversion on /dev/md3. If you run conversion on /dev/sda3 or |
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/dev/sdb3 independantly of eachother and the tool actually does |
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something, it's possible that the two mirrors would become |
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inconsistent with eachother. I'm not sure, but I _think_ that if |
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/dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3 form /dev/md3, then there's a little extra |
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md-specific metadata which would prevent tune2fs from recognizing |
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/dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3 as ext3 partitions -- which should protect you |
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from accidentally operating directly on these partitions instead of |
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the /dev/md3 device. |
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