Which "features" of ext4 existing ext4 partition uses?
I suppose you could use the dumpe2fs
utility, to get a dump of ext2/etx3/ext4 filesystme informations.
For instance, something like this might do :
sudo dumpe2fs /dev/sda5 | more
ANd the beginning of the output looks like this, on my computer :
Last mounted on: /
Filesystem UUID: 848446d9-a158-4442-905c-9a9551b0eb1a
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize
Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash
Default mount options: (none)
Filesystem state: clean
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: Linux
Inode count: 732960
Block count: 2929846
Reserved block count: 146492
...
You can use tune2fs to list out:
$ su -c "tune2fs -l /dev/sda6" | grep features
Password:
Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize
$
You can use file -s $DEVICE
which outputs on my system:
# /dev/dm-0: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data (needs journal recovery) (extents) (large files) (huge files)