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Ext 4

Ext4 is a general-purpose filesystem developed as part of the Linux kernel, succeeding Ext3, with its first stable release in October 2008. It offers increased capacity, improved performance, and reliability, supporting volumes up to 1EB and individual files up to 16TB. Although it is currently the default filesystem for many GNU/Linux distributions, it is considered a temporary solution until Btrfs is ready for widespread use.

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Ext 4

Ext4 is a general-purpose filesystem developed as part of the Linux kernel, succeeding Ext3, with its first stable release in October 2008. It offers increased capacity, improved performance, and reliability, supporting volumes up to 1EB and individual files up to 16TB. Although it is currently the default filesystem for many GNU/Linux distributions, it is considered a temporary solution until Btrfs is ready for widespread use.

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Ext4

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1 Description
2 microHOWTOs
3 See also
4 Further reading

Description
Ext4 is a general-purpose filesystem with POSIX semantics. It was developed as part of the Linux kernel and is the
successor to Ext3. Its first unstable release was in October 2006 and its first stable release in October 2008. Ext4
has been adopted as the default filesystem for a number of popular GNU/Linux distributions, however it is
regarded by its principal developer as a stop gap measure until Btrfs is suitable for widespread deployment.

The differences between Ext3 and Ext4 are incremental in nature. They include increased capacity and improved
performance and reliability. With a block size of 4KB the maximum size of an Ext4 volume is 1EB (1048576TB)
and the maximum size of an individual file is 16TB. Filenames are limited to 255 bytes in length, with only two
characters (forward slash and null) forbidden. It can efficiently handle large numbers of files per directory provided
that the dir_index feature is enabled.

Ext4 is a journalled filesystem, however (as with Ext3) you should be aware that there are different modes in which
the journal can operate (journal, ordered and writeback) and they do not give equal protection against data
corruption in the event of a failure.

microHOWTOs
• Increase the size of an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem
• Reduce the size of an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem
• Reduce the space reserved for root on an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem

See also
• Ext2
• Ext3

Further reading
• Ext4 Filesystem (documentation)
• Ext4 (and Ext2/Ext3) Wiki

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