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Topic: [SOLVED] EXT4 support

I tired from using the latest Fedora development just to create easily EXT4 partitions for my OpenSuSE... It would be nice if GParted Live CD allow me to create experimental EXT4 partitions...

2 Reply by gedakc

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Re: [SOLVED] EXT4 support

Support for ext4 file systems in GParted has just been committed to the gnome.org SVN
repository.

Since current versions of libparted incorrectly detect ext4 file systems as
ext3, a check was added to GParted to see what the blkid command detects.  If
blkid reports the file system as ext4, then it will be treated as ext4 by
GParted.
Longer term it is hoped to get ext4 file system detection built into libparted.

Kernel support for ext4 is planned for version 2.6.28 of the Linux kernel.  If
you wish to use it with lower kernel versions, you will need to patch the
kernel accordingly.

This enhancement is planned for the next release of GParted (0.4.2).

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Re: [SOLVED] EXT4 support

Ext4 support is included in GParted versions 0.4.2 and up.
GParted 0.4.2 was release on Feb 5, 2009.