e2fsprogs 1.41.8

Forum member 'Jim1911' reported that ext4 does not work with 4.3pre-beta running the 2.6.29.6 kernel.

The kernel is compiled to support ext4, so you should be able to mount ext4 partitions.

What is missing though are the tools to create and manipulate ext4 partitions, required by GParted.

I have upgraded the 'e2fsprogs' package to version 1.41.8, and now GParted should be able to do everything with ext4.

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Comments

ext4
Username: kirk
Other work for ext4: Grubconfig needs to be edited, line 1002 needs to be changed to: [ "$fs" = "ext2" -o "$fs" = "ext3" -o "$fs" = "ext4" ] && fs=e2fs Puppyinstaller needs this added to the fsfunc() : [ "$FSTYPE" = "Ext4" ] && FSTYPE="ext4" And then you can do a full hard drive install to ext4. For a frugal install, the initrd.gz is going to need some work.

ext4 fixes
Username: BarryK
"Thanks, done.

ext4
Username: kirk
"Forgot to mention that grub has to be patched for ext4 as well. Maybe it is already. And ext4 has to be compiled in the kernel, not a module.

ext4
Username: BarryK
"My recent kernel compiles, including 2.6.29.6, have ext2/3/4 all builtin, not as modules.

ext4
Username: kirk
"Also disktype needs to be updated, you'll need the cvs version: http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=cvs&group_id=73677 Sorry, I really need to make notes.

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