Re: ext2 to ext4

Felix Miata <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Jul 2026 06:47:04 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
Organization less than infinite
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Patrick Dupre composed on 2026-07-01 08:24 (UTC):

> I still have a boot partition in ext2.
> Can I convert it to ext4 without generating possible issues?

Check the inode size using tune2fs -l. If it's 128, it's subject to the year 2038
problem. If 256, then no problem. I've done it several times, using the tune2fs
options ^has_journal and ^huge_file to preserve some space that tends to be
precious on a small filesystem used infrequently for writes.
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