I use partimage to backup my ext4 partition, but during backup, the partition was detected as an ext3 partition. So I'm wondering if this can cause something bad.
Create And Restore Partition Images With Partimage
Backups are usually made in one of two ways - either file-based
which means that single files are backed up, often via synchronization
and on an external disk, or image-based which means that a whole
partition is stuffed into an image file that can be restored on the
partition, containing everything there was on it.
Hiya, i recently downloaded Fedora 11 for my new laptop after ubuntu 9.10 kept going very very slowly on it, freezing, crashing and just generally being a pain. And to my supprise, it actually booted from LiveCD and worked better thaan ubuntu does from the harddrive from the word go.
How To Convert An ext3/ext4 Root File System To btrfs On Ubuntu 12.10
ext3 and ext4 file systems can be converted to btrfs. For non-root
file systems, this can be done online (i.e., without reboot), while for
root file systems we need to boot into some kind of rescue system or
Live CD.
So I just did a dd image of a partition and gzip'd it on the fly. After formatting the partition, I realized I forgot to get some files off the drive *doh*.
So I had to gunzip the image (109GB image gzip'd to 25GB) before I could mount it as a loop device.
My question is, does anyone know of a live tool (not ghost or any live CD) that can do an image of a drive but skip the empty blocks?
Is there guide for converting ext3 to ext4 on Fedora? I use Fedora 12 which is regularly updated. How safe is procedure for data, I have only one ext3 partition on disk which has one ntfs and that ext3 partition (and also one small swap partition).
I am having little problem here.:( I partitioned my sdcard with cwm with 1gb ext4 partition and 256mb of swap partition. it said done succesfully.but when i crosschecked in minitool partition wizard it showd partition as ext3. now when link2sd asks me which partition it is then what should i do. i want to use as ext4 bcz i read that it is the best among ext2 3 4 (tell me if its not).
I have seen that Ubuntu 11.10 is offering Ext4 as default file system. As I have googled some time on ext4 and found that ext3 is quite stable that ext4 as it still has some bugs.
Even the Ubuntu Documentation is referring Ext3. Link
So, I would like to know whether Ext4 is currently stable on 11.10 or not than Ext3
I'm looking at the differences between using a file versus a partition to store a virtual disk image in VM use. The common knowledge is that partition-based images are faster than file-based images because of a decreased overhead. It makes sense, but I've never seen any actual numbers.
My own testing bears out a different result.
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