| Theodore Ts'o | 297f47a | 1997-04-26 14:25:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | NOTE: This is the DLL version of the binary distribution. If you have |
| 2 | an ELF system, please either compile e2fsprogs from sources yourself, |
| 3 | or get the ELF version of the binary distribution. The ELF version |
| Theodore Ts'o | a4d0961 | 1997-04-29 14:28:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | will have a filename of e2fsprogs-1.04-elfbin.tar.gz |
| Theodore Ts'o | 297f47a | 1997-04-26 14:25:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | |
| 6 | |
| 7 | To install the binary distribution of the second extended file |
| 8 | system management programs, just follow the steps: |
| 9 | |
| 10 | 1) Install this tar file using the following command: |
| 11 | |
| Theodore Ts'o | 21c84b7 | 1997-04-29 16:15:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | gunzip < e2fsprogs-1.04-dllbin.tar.gz | (cd /; tar Sxvpf - ) |
| Theodore Ts'o | 297f47a | 1997-04-26 14:25:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | |
| 14 | 2) Run ldconfig to update the shared library pointers. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | As root, type /sbin/ldconfig. This will update the links to |
| 17 | the shared libraries included in the distribution. You can then remove |
| 18 | the old versions of the libraries from /lib. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | 3) Remove any pre-formatted man pages. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | Some distributions will have pre-formatted manual pages which |
| 23 | will always be displayed in preference to newer man pages in /usr/man. |
| 24 | If this is the case, you may need to manually remove them in order to |
| 25 | see the correct manual pages. The shell script in |
| 26 | install-utils/remove_preformat_manpages may be helpful in doing so. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | 4) Make sure your /etc/fstab file is correct. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | Some distributions install an /etc/fstab which is missing the |
| 31 | fifth and sixth field of filesystem entry, which are the dump |
| 32 | frequency, and the fsck pass number, respectively. The problem with |
| 33 | this is that the getmntent() library routine interprets those missing |
| 34 | fields as "0", and a pass number of 0 is documented as meaning that |
| 35 | fsck should not check that particular filesystem. If your entries in |
| 36 | your /etc/fstab file look liks this: |
| 37 | |
| 38 | /dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults |
| 39 | |
| 40 | you should add "1 1" at the end of each line, so that they look like this: |
| 41 | |
| 42 | /dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults 1 1 |
| 43 | |
| 44 | There is a script in install-utils/convfstab (donated by |
| 45 | Michael Weller) that may help you correct your /etc/fstab file. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | 5) Cleanup files from the installation. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | When you're done with the installation, you will probably want |
| 50 | to remove /INSTALL (this file), /README, and /install-utils from your |
| 51 | root directory |