Edgy ships with e2fsprogs 1.39 which has the following in the Changelog: "Mke2fs will now create filesystems hash trees and on-line resizing enabled by default, based on the new /etc/mke2fs.conf file."
See also /etc/mke2fs.conf which has dir_index by default. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LukaRenko/Keycodes ** Changed in: partman-basicfilesystems (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- use dir_index when creating partitions https://launchpad.net/bugs/17570 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs