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Theodore Ts'o297f47a1997-04-26 14:25:20 +00001NOTE: This is the DLL version of the binary distribution. If you have
2an ELF system, please either compile e2fsprogs from sources yourself,
3or get the ELF version of the binary distribution. The ELF version
Theodore Ts'oa4d09611997-04-29 14:28:00 +00004will have a filename of e2fsprogs-1.04-elfbin.tar.gz
Theodore Ts'o297f47a1997-04-26 14:25:20 +00005
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7 To install the binary distribution of the second extended file
8system management programs, just follow the steps:
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101) Install this tar file using the following command:
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Theodore Ts'o21c84b71997-04-29 16:15:03 +000012 gunzip < e2fsprogs-1.04-dllbin.tar.gz | (cd /; tar Sxvpf - )
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142) Run ldconfig to update the shared library pointers.
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16 As root, type /sbin/ldconfig. This will update the links to
17the shared libraries included in the distribution. You can then remove
18the old versions of the libraries from /lib.
19
203) Remove any pre-formatted man pages.
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22 Some distributions will have pre-formatted manual pages which
23will always be displayed in preference to newer man pages in /usr/man.
24If this is the case, you may need to manually remove them in order to
25see the correct manual pages. The shell script in
26install-utils/remove_preformat_manpages may be helpful in doing so.
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284) Make sure your /etc/fstab file is correct.
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30 Some distributions install an /etc/fstab which is missing the
31fifth and sixth field of filesystem entry, which are the dump
32frequency, and the fsck pass number, respectively. The problem with
33this is that the getmntent() library routine interprets those missing
34fields as "0", and a pass number of 0 is documented as meaning that
35fsck should not check that particular filesystem. If your entries in
36your /etc/fstab file look liks this:
37
38/dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults
39
40you should add "1 1" at the end of each line, so that they look like this:
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42/dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults 1 1
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44 There is a script in install-utils/convfstab (donated by
45Michael Weller) that may help you correct your /etc/fstab file.
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475) Cleanup files from the installation.
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49 When you're done with the installation, you will probably want
50to remove /INSTALL (this file), /README, and /install-utils from your
51root directory