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Release of e2fsprogs version 1.02
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Feb 3 14:05:40 1996
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 04:28:32 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Original-Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 11:05:32 -0500
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Release of e2fsprogs version 1.02
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I am happy to announce the release of e2fsprogs version 1.02. It's
mostly a minor bugfix release with a new enhancements. The main reason
for making this release is to because of a namespace conflict with the
include files with recent 1.3 kernels. Version 1.02 has changes that
allow it to be compiled these latest 1.3 kernels.
The release notes and LSM entry for this package follow below. Note
that I am still seeing bug reports from people who are still using
version 0.5b and 0.5c of this package. Furthermore, there are some
distributions which are still using these older versiopns. There are
severe bugs with these versions in how they handle certain types of
filesystem corruptions where e2fsck tries to relocate the inode or block
bitmaps, or the inode table. People who are using older versions are
strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of e2fsprogs.
Distribution maintainers are likewise strongly encouraged to include
this version of e2fsprogs in their release.
- Ted
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Title: EXT2 Filesystem utilities
Version: 1.02
Entered-date: 01FEB96
Description: The filesystem utilities for the EXT2 filesystem, including
e2fsck, mke2fs, dumpe2fs, fsck, and others.
Keywords: utilities, fsck, filesystem, Ext2fs
Author: tytso@mit.edu (Theodore Tso)
Maintained-by: tytso@mit.edu (Theodore Tso)
Primary-site: tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs
352kB e2fsprogs-1.01.tar.gz
160kB e2fsprogs-1.01-dllbin.tar.gz
200kB e2fsprogs-1.01-elfbin.tar.gz
1kB e2fsprogs-1.02.lsm
Alternate-site:
Platforms: linux 1.2.x/1.3.x,
Copying-policy: GPL
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E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)
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Fix to allow e2fsprogs to be compiled on recent 1.3 (pl45+) kernels.
Change e2fsck to print statistics of how many non-contiguous files are
on the system. Note that a file which is larger than 8k blocks, it is
guaranteed to be non-contiguous.
In mke2fs, print a warning message if a user tries to format a whole
disk (/dev/hda versus /dev/hda1). If a user really wants to format a
whole disk, the -F (force) option forces mke2fs to format a whole disk
as a filesytem.
Fix a bug in fsck where in some cases it might start checking
partitions in the next pass before it finishes checking partitions in
the current pass. This still won't cause two partitions on the same
disk will be checked, so it's rarely a problem in real life.
Patch lsattr so that it won't hang when checking a named pipe.
Minor compilation fixes:
* Fix the order of libraries that were linked in debugfs.
* Allow the sources to be compiled with -ansi turned on.
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