ext

File Format
Name	ext
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Filesystem ext
Released	1992

This article is about the filesystem. For the filename component, see Filename extension.

ext (extended file system) is a filesystem designed for use on (early) Linux systems. It was only in use for a short time before its successor, ext2, was released.

See also

• ext2 (successor)
• ext3
• ext4
• Xiafs (successor)

Links

• Wikipedia: Extended file system