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#305 Missing features in man 8 tune2fs

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2012-11-28
2012-02-25
Paul Bolle
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0) I've converted an ext3 filesystem to ext4 by (in short) running tune2fs followed by e2fsck.

1) The tune2fs command I used was:
tune2fs -O extent,flex_bg,huge_file,uninit_bg,dir_nlink,extra_isize $DEVICE

These features were simply all features enabled for the ext4 filesystems on the same disk which weren't enabled for the ext3 filesystem I wanted to convert. (These ext4 filesystems were created by Fedora installer tools. The last installer I used was for F16. I can't remember tuning these ext4 filesystems manually.)

2) Of these features a number are not mentioned in man 8 tune2fs:
extent
huge_file
extra_isize

3) To me it seems these three features should either:
be documented in man 8 tune2fs; or
not be allowed to be set via tune2fs (in case setting them via tune2fs is not useful or even dangerous).

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