| This is the new version (1.11) of the second extended file system |
| management programs. |
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| Note: If you are using the RedHat RPM distributions of |
| e2fsprogs, don't worry about the next paragraph; all others, please |
| read on! |
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| See the file INSTALL for instructions on building and |
| installing e2fsprogs. 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Manual pages are included in this package. |
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| 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. |