When can we expect support for ext4 in ubiquity?

shirish shirishag75 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 22:28:46 GMT 2009


Addition

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 18:47, shirish <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>  With the following changes
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-January/002558.html
>
> grub (0.97-29ubuntu47) jaunty; urgency=low
>
>  [ Colin King ]
>
>  * New patch, ext4_support now allows grub to boot from ext4 partitions.
>    This patch orginated from Quentin Godfroy <godfroy at clipper.ens.fr>
>
> util-linux
>
> util-linux (2.14-1ubuntu3) jaunty; urgency=low
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-January/002608.html
>
>  * debian/rules: Install rules into /lib/udev/rules.d instead
>  * debian/util-linux.dirs: Create new location, don't create old.
>  * debian/util-linux.preinst: Remove the old rules if unmodified.
>
> and kernel 2.6.28 which is there since last week of december
>
> ext4 has everything except support in ubiquity (the live CD installer)
> and e2fsprogs
>
> Is there any idea when these both will be in jaunty?
<snip>

there seems to be some initial support in libparted for the same.

http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/188
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