Installing E2fsprogs-1.32

Estimated build time:           0.80 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  13 MB

Contents of E2fsprogs

Last checked against version 1.27.

E2fsprogs provides the filesystem utilities for use with the ext2 filesystem. It also supports the ext3 filesystem with journaling support.

E2fsprogs installs the following:

Program Files

badblocks, chattr, compile_et, debugfs, dumpe2fs, e2fsck, e2image, e2label, fsck, fsck.ext2, fsck.ext3, lsattr, mk_cmds, mke2fs, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.ext3, mklost+found, resize2fs, tune2fs and uuidgen

Library Files

libcom_err.[a,so], libe2p.[a,so], libext2fs.[a,so], libss.[a,so], libuuid.[a,so]

E2fsprogs Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 1.25.

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib, strip
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, cp, install, ln, mkdir, mv, rm, sync
Gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0
Glibc: ldconfig
Grep: egrep, grep
Gzip: gzip
Make: make
Gawk: awk
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, hostname, uname
Texinfo: makeinfo
Textutils: cat, tr

Installation of E2fsprogs

It is recommended to build E2fsprogs outside of the source tree:

mkdir ../e2fsprogs-build &&
cd ../e2fsprogs-build

Prepare E2fsprogs to be compiled:

../e2fsprogs-1.32/configure --prefix=/usr --with-root-prefix="" \
����--enable-elf-shlibs

The meaning of the configure options are:

Continue with compiling the package:

make

Begin installing the package:

make install

Install the shared libraries:

make install-libs

Update the /usr/share/info/dir file to include E2fsprogs' info pages in the index:

install-info /usr/share/info/libext2fs.info /usr/share/info/dir