[Klug-general] Be careful with ext4

[Michael E. Rentell]

Too late Aitch. Never mind, back up and running and damage minimal - 
except to pride which has suffered a probably welcome knock.

MikeR

nic dan wrote:
> Michael
> If it's not too late, you may be able to get the info back with 
> systemrescue or TRK3.3/testdisk
>
> Note to anyone experimenting with ext4 - you will need the latest 
> version of Gparted as the earlier one doesn't recognise ext4 FS
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2009-February/007169.html
>
> Ext4 support is included in GParted versions 0.4.2 and up.
> GParted 0.4.2 was release on Feb 5, 2009.
>
> Aitch :)
>
> _____________________________________________
> > Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:17:23 +0100
> > From: michael.rentell at ntlworld.com
> > To: kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Subject: [Klug-general] Be careful with ext4
> >
> > Good day all,
> >
> > The brighter ones amongst us will no doubt grin knowingly at this 
> story,
> > but those with a lesser knowledge might like to know that you need 
> to be
> > just a bit careful when upgrading to the ext4 filesystem.
> >
> > I upgraded to Mandriva 2009.1 over Mandriva 2008.1 (both the Powerpack
> > version) and as a part of the upgrade it politely asked if it could
> > upgrade my / and /home partitions to ext4 the new improved file system
> > and I blithely clicked 'yes' without further thought.
> >
> > After trying 2009.1 for 2/3 weeks I yearned for the simplicity and
> > reliability of 2008.1 and decided to go back to that. I'd reinstalled
> > 2008.1 several times previously and having a separate /home partition
> > makes that dead easy.
> >
> > WRONG! As a part of the reinstallation of 2008.1 I noticed a slight
> > change in the 'Which partition to format' routine. It just said that it
> > was reformatting / rather than asking whether to reformat / and /home.
> > So, anyway, I clicked 'yes'.
> >
> > DISASTER! It had not recognised the ext4 file system so it didn't 
> know I
> > had two partitions. It formatted the lot and I lost everything.
> >
> > I did have a backup but it was a bit out of date - yeah I know!
> >
> > So here's a friendly warning. If you upgrade to ext4 there's no going
> > back gracefully. Also, keep up-to-date backups - disaster comes
> > unexpectedly.
> >
> > Have a nice meeting today.
> >
> > MikeR
> > in Folkestone
> >
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