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Chapter 14. The Ext2 - Ext3 - Ext4 Filesystem

Objectives

  • Describe the main features of the Ext4 filesystem
  • Explain the concepts of block groups, superblock, data blocks and inodes
  • Use dumpe2fs and tune2fs
  • List Ext4 enhacements

Ext2 

First Linux filesystem

Ext3 

Its similar to Ext2 filesystem however it does includes journaling

Ext4

Its similar to Ext3 but it uses extends instead of blocks collections in order to deal with large files

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