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ChromeOS Will No Longer Support Ext2/3/4 On External Drives/SD Cards

An anonymous reader writes Chrome OS is based on the Linux kernel and designed by Google to work with web applications and installed applications. Chromebook is one of the best selling laptops on Amazon. However, devs decided to drop support for ext2/3/4 on external drivers and SD card. It seems that ChromiumOS developers can't implement a script or feature to relabel EXT volumes in the left nav that is insertable and has RW privileges using Files.app. Given that this is the main filesystem in Linux, and is thereby automatically well supported by anything that leverages Linux, this choice makes absolutely no sense. Google may want to drop support for external storage and push the cloud storage on everyone. Overall Linux users and community members are not happy at all.

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  1. Re:One huge customer - schools by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You're complaining about school selling children to ad brokers, when the school itself is a concentration camp for children, where the guards get paid to pound whatever politically correct crap is the Order of the Day into their brains for the greater glory of the state? And if some actual education accidentally happens, the brightest kids in the cell are still chained to the pace of the dullest drooling moron.

    Talk about choking on a gnat while swallowing camels. The only reason I can figure that they're not daily chaining the cuter students over a log and renting out their tight orifices for a quick molestation session is that the school boards reserve that for themselves.