Feature changed by: Mike Lowery (DiskCrasher) Feature #314656, revision 2 Title: Provide option to upgrade ext3 partitions to ext4 openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Mike Lowery (diskcrasher) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: - When upgrading from an older openSUSE version containing ext3 + When upgrading an older openSUSE installation containing ext3 partitions, it would be nice if the current installer provided an option to upgrade them to ext4. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314656

Feature changed by: Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) Feature #314656, revision 5 Title: Provide option to upgrade ext3 partitions to ext4 - openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed + openSUSE Distribution: Rejected by Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) + reject reason: Strongly recommended to reformat to use ext4 instead -- + we should not be encouraging users to do something that is potentially + dangerous. Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Mike Lowery (diskcrasher) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: When upgrading an older openSUSE installation containing ext3 partitions, it would be nice if the current installer provided an option to upgrade them to ext4. + Relations: + - Kernel wiki: Upgrading to ext4 (url: + https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/UpgradeToExt4) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: User gets latest & greatest filesystem without having to figure out how to do the conversion manually (not a simple process, especially for the root fs). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314656