{"id":230319,"date":"2026-04-02T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/systemrescue-13-lands-with-linux-6-18-and-bcachefs-support-the-register\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:00:14","slug":"systemrescue-13-lands-with-linux-6-18-and-bcachefs-support-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/systemrescue-13-lands-with-linux-6-18-and-bcachefs-support-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/04\/02\/systemrescue_13\/\">SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/04\/02\/systemrescue_13\/\">https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/04\/02\/systemrescue_13\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-02 05:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theregister.com\">www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest update to the handy SystemRescue is here with a new kernel. There&#8217;s also a new GParted Live, and some other handy utilities.<\/p>\n<p>Another year, another new version of the very handy SystemRescue. Earlier this week, version 13.0 appeared, with better support for HiDPI screens, and more.<\/p>\n<p>SystemRescue 13 uses Linux kernel 6.18 from early December last year, which within days was made the latest LTS kernel. This time last year, we looked at SystemRescue 12, which had kernel 6.12 \u2013 its first version with the new bcachefs filesystem built in. (Bcachefs first debuted with kernel 6.7 and was ejected again 10 versions later.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_center\">SystemRescue 13 has a bunch of handy tools \u2013 and a full manual built right in<\/p>\n<p>SystemRescue is avoiding the drama as best it can. Although bcachefs is no longer being developed inside the kernel, it is still in active development \u2013 albeit with an LLM coding assistant. The radical new filesystem is now available as a kernel module, which can be built and loaded with DKMS, and the SystemRescue change log says:<\/p>\n<p>This version also has GParted version 1.8.1, which was released earlier this March, and tweaked font handling, which should improve its readability on HiDPI screens. A new addition is FATSort, which can sort the filenames on all variants of the FAT filesystem.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the\u00a01980s, this vulture used a tool called Norton Directory Sort to do this. Then we got MS-DOS 5, which you could set the DIRCMD environment variable, which made the DIR command sort its output. (We used SET DIRCMD=\/OEN back then.) Now there&#8217;s no need. FATSort can do it for you, even on FAT32 with long filenames!<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\">GParted Live<\/h3>\n<p>SystemRescue has other tricks up its sleeve, but GParted is one of its more useful tools. If that&#8217;s all you need, it has its own bootable live medium, and there&#8217;s also a new version of that. GParted Live 1.8.1 appeared about a week before SystemRescue 13, and it has kernel 6.19. It doesn&#8217;t do as much, but then again, it is half the size:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/04\/02\/systemrescue_13\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support \u2022 The Register https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/04\/02\/systemrescue_13\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2026\/03\/31\/systemrescue-13.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-230319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230321,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230319\/revisions\/230321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}