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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:01:03 +0000
From: Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Thoughts about EXT4 optional in Jaunty Development &
questions about Plymouth
To: ubuntu-devel-discuss Dev <[email protected]>
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On Nov 24, 2008, at 12:07 AM, Dean Loros wrote:
> ...
> There has been talk in the testing group about Plymouth & possible
> replacement of Usplash...IMO Plymouth provides a better user
experience
> due to a "more" seamless blending of Grub, Kernel boot & GDM. I
realize
> that there could be "issues" with this, but it could also net a more
> positive user experience .
> ...
Plymouth is scheduled for discussion at the Ubuntu Developer Summit two
weeks from now.
<https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/plymouth>
Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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Just thought it was worth mentioning that it's certainly possible to use
ext4 on Ubuntu already. I'm using it for my 2 data hard drives which
were originally ext3. But ext4 is backward compatible and therefore has
the capability to mount ext3 partitions and ext4.
Here's what I done (as I posted in a recent forum):
First you have to enable the system to mount ext4 because Ubuntu still
flags ext4 file system as experimental as is therefore disabled by
default.
ubuntu% sudo tune2fs -E test_fs /dev/your_drive_partition
And then you simply have to mount the drive.
ubuntu% sudo mount /dev/your_drive_partition -t ext4dev
/media/your_mount_directory
Done.
A quick check with df to see if it worked.
ubuntu% df -T
It worked. Here's what mine looks like. The last 2 entries are the ext4
mounts. You'll notice that they are flagged as ext4dev, that's because
(as mentioned) Ubuntu still flags ext4 as experimental, even though it's
not.
ubuntu% df -T
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 jfs 17549600 4258296 13291304 25% /
tmpfs tmpfs 250364 0 250364 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun tmpfs 250364 324 250040 1% /var/run
varlock tmpfs 250364 0 250364 0% /var/lock
udev tmpfs 250364 2872 247492 2% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 250364 0 250364 0% /dev/shm
lrm tmpfs 250364 2380 247984 1%
/lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile
/dev/sda1 jfs 495712 13176 482536 3% /boot
/dev/sda5 ext2 55599836 25436932 27903524 48% /home
/dev/sdb1 ext4dev 157566568 45810908 103751680 31% /home/chris/disk
/dev/sdc1 ext4dev 307663800 256501836 35778776 88% /home/chris/disk-1
For the record too, it's definitely snappier with both read/write on the
simple real world tests that I done.
Regards
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Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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