[parted-devel] Detection of ext4 file systems

[Joel Granados]

----- "Curtis Gedak" <gedakc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is anyone currently working on ext4 file system detection for 
> parted/libparted?

Not really, and It has not been discussed in the past.  not that I know of anyway.

> 
> This is reported as Ticket #188:
> http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/188
> 
> I would like to add ext4 support to GParted.  Hence I am willing to
> help 
> find a solution to this problem.
> 
> Also, it has been a while since the last official Parted release
> (1.8.8 
> on 2007-08-10).  Is a new release planned, and if so when?

There must be a release soonish, we do have to solve the "parted only handles sector sizes of 512 bytes" thing first.  Which means get some testing done and resolve any found issues.
Guess ATM everybody else is stuck on some other project and has not moved forward with any of this.  I know parted has been on my todo postits on my computer for some time :(

A proposal for the ext4 filesystem detection would be great.  and remember that we are trying to move away from fs handling (we are not very good at it anyway).  So I guess the ext4 detection would be one of the most important issues to resolve in parted.

> 
> Regards,
> Curtis Gedak
> 
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Joel Andres Granados
Red Hat / Brno Czech Republic