Re: Heads up on ext4 changes

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On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Tom London <selinux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>
>>> Changing /etc/fstab to list "ext4" for the root fs may be enough, do it
>>> before you install the new kernel.
>>
>> On further reflection, you will probably just have to do this.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>>> notting suggested a module alias to ext4dev in the ext4.ko module
>>> itself, that sounds like a good plan and as long as it gets upstream
>>> I'll commit it to Fedora shortly, and I think that should make it all
>>> seamless.
>>
>>
> I have an 'ext4' FS on a USB hard drive.  When I plug this in, I get a
> "Cannot mount volume" popup:
>
> The volume 'Backup1' uses the ext4dev file system which is not
> supported by your system, followed by a dbus-type failure error
> message about a minute later.
>
> This just me, or what additional changes are needed?
>
> tom
> --
Well, the "--fstype" option to gnome-mount works for manual command:
    "gnome-mount -d /dev/sdb1 --fstype ext4"

So I'm not road blocked.  The "plug and play" auto mounting doesn't work though.

tom
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