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Downgrade from Ext4 to Ext3

Impossible? No- just a lot of work. Since I’m not running a kernel with ext4 support anymore, I had to do this to get my home partition into ext3: boot into a livecd with ext4 support image the partition to a firewire drive using sudo dd if=/dev/[partition]...

Fresh Install for 9.04

I believe it’s crazy to do an upgrade. It’s just safer to backup important things and reinstall from scratch. This may be odious and time consuming but you’re just more likely to keep around some misconfigured or outdated packages if you just...