Migrating to Ext 4

How difficult would it be to move to extension 3 and what are the advantages?
Would it require the compilation of a new kernel in Ibex?
I don't have a discrete home partition just these three: sda1, sda2 and sda5.

 

I guess that it couldn't be accomplished on a mounted drive so that would mean using the Live CD?

 

Try it on unpartitioned space and it should work out.

 

I don't think as a user you'll see any major differences. Might wanna read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

Bear in mind that ext4 is a young filesystem, so I recommend you thoroughly test on non-mission-critical systems before fully committing.

The underlying filesystem does not dictate the kernel behavior, but it can affect performance, stability and data corruption/recovery. For most home users, any journaled filesystem will give similar results.

Mrk

 

I'll try it out on an external first.

 

That's good advise. I'll try it on a non-critical partition on an external first and will probably wait until Ubuntu or another of the leading Distros adopt it before using it on my production machine.