FWIW 'this seems to WORK in bionic, including "make fullcheck" on the source, system able to check itself on boot, resizing other system disks, no issues so far as I can. Thankyou for agreeing//doing this so quickly.
Backporting related matters to be discussed separately in:- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1365874 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to e2fsprogs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1756177 Title: FFe: e2fsprogs 1.44, support for largedir and ea_inode Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: e2fsprogs 1.44 landed in Debian unstable on March 8, missing feature freeze / Debian import freeze by about a week. Per upstream (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1365874/comments/17), 1.44 includes two new not-enabled-by-default features which would be good to have available in the 18.04 userspace: largedir, and ea_inode. This is a rather stable and well-maintained codebase with stable interfaces, so I believe the risks are small to taking this post-FF. The one known change in behavior relative to Ubuntu 16.04 is the enablement of metadata checksums by default, which is a change we already have via the 1.43.9 package, so shouldn't count against an FFe. The main (but still small) risk to the release from taking this change would be disruption to image builds / installation as a result of broken tools. This would be detected fairly quickly through our automated image testing, and if any regressions are introduced we should roll back the e2fsprogs update immediately. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1756177/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp