The state of ext4 disck tools

[Martin Webster]

On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 19:04 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> The last time that I had played with ext4 the Linux filesystem tools
> were not well developed and did not support it. I cannot find any
> information on any change in that situation, and I will not be testing
> Ubuntu 10.10 for another month. Can anyone point me to docs that
> mention an improvement in the situation. 

It would help if you stated when you last used ext4 and if you intend to
migrate from ext3 or create new partitions. I've not had any issues with
ext4 since 9.10; since Karmic it's been the default file system and is
now part of the Linux kernel. The e2fsprogs utilities seem to work
well. 

However, I read that there are some issues if you're migrating from
earlier Ubuntu releases.

You may like to check out the following:
https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page,
https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto and
http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4.

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As ever,
.\\artin

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