Why does system-config-kdump on RHEL5 not offer "ext4" as dump location?

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Issue

  • Why does system-config-kdump on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 not offer ext4 as dump location?
  • I want to dump a vmcore to an ext4 filesystem, but there is no option for ext4 within the system-config-kdump application.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • ext4 as dump destination
  • system-config-kdump-0:1.0.14-1.el5.noarch or earlier

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