[all variants] Be careful if you use the new gParted for new partitions

Be careful if you use the new gParted for new partitions. It uses newer filesystem tools and can format some new features into the new partitions that your system probably isn't new enough to be able to handle.

Looking at: http://ift.tt/2bodQdJ

You can see that gParted uses e2fsprogs (1.43.1) , but a lot of distros aren't using those essential filesystem tools that new yet.
I learned this after getting some non fatal errors and from using an older version of gParted that complained about the new unsupported features.

It's also worth knowing that although gParted tends to be reliable, it's not actually based upon Debian Stable. It's based upon Debian "Sid", which is either UnStable or Testing, I forget which.
This might not be really bad in terms of bugs, but it's bad in terms of incompatibility.

Because of the issues I've seen with this, my fsck isn't new enough to fix my drive if it crashes even though it works fine on older filesystem implementation.
And it could be years until my distro updates it's repositories with versions of e2fsprogs as new as the ones gParted is using.

So be wary. And know that even if you format with ext3 instead of ext4, it's still using the newer version of e2fsprogs, so you might still have the same issue.

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[all variants] Be careful if you use the new gParted for new partitions