Stephen Adler wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I just upgraded my desktop to fedora 11. The way I set up my system is
> with my home directory in a separate partition so that if I want to do
> an upgrade by reinstalling fedora, I can then reformat / and /boot
> leaving /home directory is untouched.
>
> But now there is ext4. So, should I leave /home as an ext3 file system?
> Or should I go through the trouble of backing up /home, reformatting to
> ext4 and restoring? Currently / is now ext4.
I would vote for a resounding "No". If you'll remember, I posted a few
weeks ago how my wife's mail file was getting clobbered and corrupted
after rebuilding my server on Ubuntu Jaunty and using ext4 for my root
partition. Moving /var/mail to an ext3 partition fixed the problem
completely, and that's all I changed. Other than setting up a process
to back it up every two hours ;)
I'm really stuck now, though, because there's no way to get my root
partition back to ext3. Since it's /, it's got /dev and /proc and other
things you can't just tar up. So I've symlinked some critical things
like /var/mail to other filesystems.
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