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Formal release of e2fsprogs 0.5b
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Tue Feb 14 16:29:10 1995
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 20:51:33 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Formal release of e2fsprogs 0.5b
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: ext2fs, filesystem, fsck, debuge2fs, mkfs
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Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.setup
I am happy to announce the formal release of e2fsprogs 0.5b.
This version is primarily a bugfix/minor enhancement release --- the
e2fsck program is now capable of handling many more types of filesystem
corrections. In addition, the debugfs program is more powerful; it is
now capable of dumping out the contents of an inode to a file. The
mke2fs program is also supports greater than 2GB filesystems, assuming
that you have a relatively recent 1.1 kernel. This version of e2fsprogs
also uses DLL static library in order to decrease the size of the
binaries, which is a useful feature if you're trying to fit them all on
a floppy. :-)
Because the 0.5b e2fsck can handle many more types of filesystem
inconsistency, I urge everyone to upgrade.
Note that if you install the parallelizing fsck which is included in
this release, you must have a valid /etc/fstab with *six* fields in each
line:
/dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults 1 1
Some distributions install an /etc/fstab with the last two arguments
missing, which is wrong. If your system only has four fields in your
/etc/fstab, merely add "1 1" to the end of each line. The shell script
install-utils/convfstab will automatically take care of fixing your
/etc/fstab if necessary.
Version 0.5b of the e2fsprogs may be found in /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs
on tsx-11.mit.edu. There are two tar files there; a binary-only
distribution and a source distribution. Naturally, I encourage people
to pick up the source distribution; however, the binary distribution is
included for your convenience.
If you have any problems with this release, please send mail to
tytso@mit.edu.
Enjoy!!
- Ted
Here is the README file for e2fsprogs 0.5b:
This is the new version (0.5b) of the second extended file system
management programs. You need to run Linux 1.0 or above to use it since
some programs used some ext2fs features that where not available in
previous kernel versions.
See the file INSTALL for installation instructions. This is
important! Note that your /etc/fstab file may need modifying before
you install the new fsck program. See the INSTALL file for more details.
This version contains programs written by Theodore Ts'o and Remy Card.
This distribution was packaged by Ted and Remy with the help of Stephen Tweedie
and Alexy Vovenko.
The programs written or rewritten by Ted are:
- libext2fs: a new library containing entries to access the control
structures of a second extended file system.
- e2fsck: a new file system checker which uses optimized routines.
This new checker is much more efficient and safer than the old
e2fsck.
- mke2fs: a new file system creator which uses the ext2fs library.
- debugfs: a file system debugger which can be used to examine and
change the state of a file system. Use it with caution since it
can corrupt file systems if you are not careful.
- fsck: a new fsck front-end. This new fsck can run multiple
several file system checks simultanously if they are on different
disks.
The programs written by Remy are:
- badblocks: a new bad blocks checker. It can be run by the super
user to search for bad blocks on a device and can also be called
by e2fsck and mke2fs.
- dumpe2fs: a new program which displays the control structure of
a file system. To understand the output of this program, one needs
to know the physical structure of a second extended file system.
- mklost+found: re-creates a lost+found directory if it has been
deleted.
- tune2fs: adjusts tunable paramaters on a file system.
- chattr: changes files attributes and version.
- lsattr: lists files attributes and version.
Manual pages are included in this package.
In case of bugs in these programs, please contact Ted
<tytso@mit.edu> and Remy <card@masi.ibp.fr>. See the e2fsck man page
for suggestions of what sort of information to include when submitting
bug reports for e2fsck.
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