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Bug 711114 - Change default fs to ext4
Change default fs to ext4
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gparted
Classification: Other
Component: application
GIT HEAD
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gparted maintainers alias
gparted maintainers alias
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-10-30 02:26 UTC by Phillip Susi
Modified: 2013-12-09 18:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
0001-Change-default-filesystem-type-to-ext4.patch (1.21 KB, patch)
2013-10-30 02:29 UTC, Phillip Susi 		none Details | Review
Change default file system to ext4 (v2) (3.02 KB, patch)
2013-10-30 22:06 UTC, Mike Fleetwood 		none Details | Review

Description Phillip Susi 2013-10-30 02:26:37 UTC 
The default fs is still ext2, which has been depreciated for something like a decade now.  The default should be changed to ext4, which has been well supported for quite a few years and the default fs of choice for all recent distribution releases.
Comment 1 Phillip Susi 2013-10-30 02:29:37 UTC 
Created attachment 258510 [details] [review]
0001-Change-default-filesystem-type-to-ext4.patch
Comment 2 Mike Fleetwood 2013-10-30 22:06:05 UTC 
Created attachment 258620 [details] [review]
Change default file system to ext4 (v2)

Hi Phillip,

I hope you don't mind, but I have modified you patch to fall back to
ext3 then ext2 as the default file system.  This is primarily to handle
RHEL/CentOS 5.x which doesn't have ext4.  Also added ext4 into the
GParted Manual, since we are using it as the default now.

Testing:
1) Successfully tesed on CentOS 5.x and it selects ext3 as the default.
2) Tested on a recent desktop.  Selects ext4 as the default.  Then moved
   mkfs.ext4/3/2 out of the way one at a time and rescaned.  This steps
   the default selection from ext4 -> ext3 -> ext2 -> btrfs.

If this is OK with you I will apply.

Thanks,
Mike
Comment 3 Phillip Susi 2013-10-30 22:27:56 UTC 
Sounds good.
Comment 4 Mike Fleetwood 2013-10-31 21:20:23 UTC 
Hi Phillip,

I have applied the patches to the GParted GIT repository:

Change default file system to ext4 (#711114)
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gparted/commit/?id=73f2c689f7bc6fe75181f5cce88d521e25636813

List ext4 in the GParted Manual (#711114)
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gparted/commit/?id=7bebacd8d4d650da98bbedd4e84bc2c160912f67

Thanks,
Mike
Comment 5 Curtis Gedak 2013-11-11 17:24:00 UTC 
Thank you Phillip and Mike for you work on this improvement.  It looks good to me.

Marking this report as NEW.  After this is included in a GParted official release I will close the report as RESOLVED/FIXED.
Comment 6 Curtis Gedak 2013-12-09 18:13:02 UTC 
This enhancement was included in the GParted 0.17.0 release on December 9, 2013.