Arch Linux

rwhite

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Registered: 2008-06-28

Posts: 24

ext4

is there any way to install arch linux on ext4?

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: ext4

Well, ext4 is backwards compatible, so you can install Arch on ext3 and then mount it as ext4 (if you mount it with "extents" option, newly created files will use extents and it will become incompatible with ext3). If you want all the files with extents to start with, you can manually create and mount the partition in Arch's installer environment.

Note that ext4 isn't deemed stable yet. You'd also have to build e2fsprogs from git, to make fsck work with ext4.

Last edited by lucke (2008-07-13 22:29:35)