Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?
Le 25/08/2010 à 14:31, Tom Browder a écrit :
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> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:20, Rodney D. Myers <rod_myers@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > On 8/25/10 8:14 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers <rod_myers@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> >>> On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
> >> ...
> >>>> Can anyone say for sure what will happen during installation with an
> >>>> existing ext4 partition to be retained?
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> > When installing, and the "experts" will correct me if I'm wring ;-) ,
> > use the expert system when doing the drive formatting. In there, you can
> > mark each partition as keep, ignore, format, etc. Also in there, you can
> > assign each partition a mount point as well.
>
> That sounds good. So I shouldn't have any problems with 5.0.5
> supporting existing ext4 partitions.
Lenny does not support ext4 for /boot (maybe / too), but
it can manage ext4 for other partitions.
https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#For_people_who_are_running_Debian
http://wiki.debian.org/Ext4
For sure there is a backported kernel with ext4 support, it works flawlessly for me.
http://backports.org/
http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/kernel/linux-image-2.6-686
Alain.
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