Fiasco trying to upgrade fs from ext3 to ext4

It was afternoon when I tried my hands on trying to upgrade my filesysten from ext3 to ext4. I referred to : http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Converting_an_ext3_filesystem_to_ext4 As mentioned… I did the following : <code style="white-space:nowrap;color:#495988;background-color:white;"># tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/<em>VolGroup00/LogVol00</em> <code style="white-space:nowrap;color:#495988;background-color:white;"># e2fsck -fD /dev/<em>VolGroup00/LogVol00</em> After quite some time, the procedure finally completed. I was so delighted that I did a sytem reboot to find that my system won’t boot. The reason, I didn’t update my kernel ramdisk image, and it tried to mount the / partition as ext3 and failed as the partition has already become ext4....

April 14, 2009 · Ratnadeep Debnath