| NOTE: This is the ELF version of the binary distribution. If you have |
| a DLL system, please either compile e2fsprogs from sources yourself, |
| or get the DLL version of the binary distribution. The DLL version |
| will have a filename of e2fsprogs-1.04-dllbin.tar.gz |
| |
| |
| To install the binary distribution of the second extended file |
| system management programs, just follow the steps: |
| |
| 1) Install this tar file using the following command: |
| |
| gunzip < e2fsprogs-1.04-elfbin.tar.gz | (cd /; tar Sxvpf - ) |
| |
| 2) Run ldconfig to update the shared library pointers. |
| |
| As root, type /sbin/ldconfig. This will update the links to |
| the shared libraries included in the distribution. You can then remove |
| the old versions of the libraries from /lib. |
| |
| 3) Remove any pre-formatted man pages. |
| |
| Some distributions will have pre-formatted manual pages which |
| will always be displayed in preference to newer man pages in /usr/man. |
| If this is the case, you may need to manually remove them in order to |
| see the correct manual pages. The shell script in |
| install-utils/remove_preformat_manpages may be helpful in doing so. |
| |
| 4) Make sure your /etc/fstab file is correct. |
| |
| Some distributions install an /etc/fstab which is missing the |
| fifth and sixth field of filesystem entry, which are the dump |
| frequency, and the fsck pass number, respectively. The problem with |
| this is that the getmntent() library routine interprets those missing |
| fields as "0", and a pass number of 0 is documented as meaning that |
| fsck should not check that particular filesystem. If your entries in |
| your /etc/fstab file look liks this: |
| |
| /dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults |
| |
| you should add "1 1" at the end of each line, so that they look like this: |
| |
| /dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults 1 1 |
| |
| There is a script in install-utils/convfstab (donated by |
| Michael Weller) that may help you correct your /etc/fstab file. |
| |
| 5) Cleanup files from the installation. |
| |
| When you're done with the installation, you will probably want |
| to remove /INSTALL (this file), /README, and /install-utils from your |
| root directory |